Why is the current app manager not as fast ? Maybe we could just add some changes to it to have a daemon process or a cron that would check in some intervals when there is data/network connection and update the cache in the background? Instead of just doing so on-demand while the user awaits at the UI?
Sivan On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivai...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Attila Csipa <ma...@csipa.in.rs> wrote: > >> . The apt dir also got moved to /opt, which probably slowed it down a bit in >> exchange for a lot more space or the rootfs. And last, but not least, the >> extras-devel Packages file is a solid 14MB nowadays (curse them icons !), >> which takes time to get parsed/processed/updated no mater how you slice it. > > Ok then. > > I guess what we need is an alternative app manager - something that is > as fast as apt-cache search / apt-get, but still allows "relaxed" > usage, with a modern ui. > > -- > Ville M. Vainio > http://tinyurl.com/vainio > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
