[sugar] perceived sugar performance

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:26:12PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>  > We cannot presume that _all_ activities will be able to put a window
>  > in 0.1-0.5s,
>
>  I think we are better served by presuming that activities which fail to
>  start quickly are broken need to be fixed. For goodness' sake, we have a
>  processor clocked at over 400 MHz that can play full-screen video. Does
>  someone here actually wish to argue that it's acceptable for process
>  creation, X connection setup, window creation, and painting to take long
>  enough to require secondary feedback mechanisms?

In a perfect world, you would be right. But that doesn't seem to be
the world we are living in, because so many apps seem to need a banner
while they launch (openoffice, gimp, banshee, etc.).

I'm not 100% sure that we need such a strong feedback during
launching, but just saying that we'll make everything fast enough and
slow activities won't bite us is a bit courageous, at least.

Thanks,

Tomeu