Thanks for the feedback Joanie, some comments below:
JR
On 05/21/10 02:00 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Hey John.
This functionality is going to be nice to have. Been playing with it off
and on today, and I like it.
- I have tried to optimize the list processing we do, but most time is
spent in retrieving information from the catalog. Shawn has already
explained to me that there is work planned to really improve catalog
performance and so we will need to wait for this to happen before we see
any big speedup here.
Understood. FWIW, on a bare-metal install it's not all that bad really.
Regardless, I'm somewhat confused about what you're proposing in the
meantime:
Given the above fact:
Default Startup (to get this just uncheck: "Edit->Preferences: Remember
Current State on Startup"):
- Starts in Publisher (Search All), showing the Publisher (Search All)
help page. Under the covers we load Publisher (Installed) to get the
Categories populated quickly. This gives a nice fast startup to usable
PM of around 4 to 5 sec.
- Regardless of what you select during the session, when you restart it
will startup in Publisher (Search All)
Enable "Edit->Preferences: Remember Current State on Startup"
- You can switch to All Publisher and on next startup PM will restore
you to All Publisher. So All Publisher behaves just like any other
publisher. If you have chosen to see the Start Page you will see it on
startup.
Are you suggesting that users toggle this setting on an as-needed basis
to address the load time issue?
Yep - if we just have the current setup with Opensolaris.org as the
default Publisher, its taking me 12 secs to startup. So until we see a
big speedup in how we fetch the required packge information from IPS, we
need to change the default startup to something that's more acceptable.
Making the change to have us start with "All Publisher (Search)" and
categories populated using "All Publishers (Installed)" gets startup
back down to around 4 secs.
Also, All Publishers (Installed) and All Publishers (Search) seem
redundant now. Are those going to be removed from the Publisher combo
box?
Eventually we could drop "All Publishers (Search)", but the "All
Publishers (Installed)" is not just the "All Publisher" list filtered
with the View set to Installed. Its the list of all installed packages
on the system, regardless if the original Publisher is still on the
system or not. I think a name change would make more sense: All
Publishers (Installed) -> All Installed Packages
Take care.
--joanie
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