Unity Menu Shouldn't Lag After Hitting the Super Key

Bug #1012503 reported by Lonnie Lee Best
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This bug affects 5 people
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unity (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Accessing the Unity menu, is such a common task, that this menu should be cached or pre-rendered, so that there is absolutely no noticeable lag after you hit your super key.

It literally takes 2 or 3 seconds for the Unity menu to appear after hitting the super key.

I remember back back when Windows didn't cache their start-menu. Every time you'd click it, it had to access the hard drive before it could display it. Later, they cached that into RAM, and it made start-menu navigation more instant.

When I'm launching an application, I hit my super key, and then I have to wait for the Unity menu to come up before I begin typing. This annoyance has finally grown to the point that I'm willing to write this bug-report.

All efforts should be made to cache/pre-render this menu, so that the displaying of it will be instantaneous upon user initiation!

I want my computer to always assume that my very next task is going to be to hit my super key and display the unity menu, and I want it to be geared toward making that happen instantly.

Tags: unity
summary: - Unity Menu Shouldn't Lag Slightly after Hitting the Super Key
+ Unity Menu Shouldn't Slightly after Hitting the Super Key
summary: - Unity Menu Shouldn't Slightly after Hitting the Super Key
+ Unity Menu Shouldn't Lag
summary: - Unity Menu Shouldn't Lag
+ Unity Menu Shouldn't Lag After Hitting the Super Key
description: updated
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 906021, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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