I think a small improvement would be at least show some feedback to click action. I've been using Application lens for a long time, and I always think I'm doing something wrong when I click on a result.
When I do a search for a given app name and click on a resulting app, nothing happens for a while. The software is doing some initialization under the hood or searching online for more info about that app. It will take 2~4 seconds, leaving me stuck into search results. If the desired/expected action is to open the details panel for that app, then at least a 'loading' animation will help to indicate that I've done the right thing clicking the icon, or open the panel and let it empty on screen until the app data arrives. The feel I have using the application lens is that I'm searching for apps, looking for results, but the "install/open details" feature is not implemented yet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity-lens-applications in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1192081 Title: Previews for applications are really slow to display anything Status in Ubuntu Software Center: Confirmed Status in Unity Applications Lens: Triaged Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unity-lens-applications” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I'm seeing rightly on forums and generally the Internet that 100scopes previews are slow, combined with the fact that we now have the left click showing the preview by default frustrate a lot of users. On my beefy machine (i7, 8G of rams), the preview for an application takes 3/4s to show, you can't do anything meanwhile as there is no button to launch the application (because you didn't double click, just left click and thought "argh, I should have double click"). Because of this, we are making the 1st landing of 100 scopes experience bad and we should fix it (at least, in that applicatoin lens) by either preloading the software-center-dbus (/usr/share /software-center/software-center-dbus) daemon (we can't have it always running as it's taking over 100MB of memory) when hovering an app lens result, or when it's the first result (so can be directly triggered by pressing [Enter]) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/software-center/+bug/1192081/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp