"Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
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"Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
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Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#2For me, the answer was as simple as "Ctrl+Alt+T; sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop"
Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#3Why is the Unity dash so slow, and why does Canonical not seem to have any interest in speeding it up? Is it faster on their testing machines? Is it significantly faster on new hardware, if you're using an SSD, or if you have more than 4GB of RAM, or something? I quite like Unity generally, but the ridiculous slowness of the dash is a constant irritant.
Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#4I was using Gnome-Do and later Synapse before Unity arrived and it is much slower which is one of the top UI felonies for new software.
Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#5It doesn't bother me that much because it never misses what I type. I can hit the Super key, then 't', then enter, and I know that it will eventually launch a terminal.
Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#6Why is the Unity dash so slow, and why does Canonical not seem to have any interest in speeding it up? Is it faster on their testing machines? Is it significantly faster on new hardware, if you're using an SSD, or if you have more than 4GB of RAM, or something? I quite like Unity generally, but the ridiculous slowness of the dash is a constant irritant.
it's a compiz plugin written in python. python is slow.
Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#7Dash, sometimes, is horribly slow. Rest of Unity has gotten usable, but Dash is a pain even now. Canonical should really focus on it's performance since it's the most important part of Unity experience.
Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#8Why is the Unity dash so slow, and why does Canonical not seem to have any interest in speeding it up? Is it faster on their testing machines? Is it significantly faster on new hardware, if you're using an SSD, or if you have more than 4GB of RAM, or something? I quite like Unity generally, but the ridiculous slowness of the dash is a constant irritant.
it's a compiz plugin written in python . python is slow.
Does it start a new interpreter every time you open it or something?
Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#9I have a feeling it might be the lenses that connect to servers. I removed all unity-lens-* packages but unity-lens-applications and it's quite snappy.
Re: "Ode To Ubuntu's Unity Dash". The Poem.
#10It's a shame that the dash is so slow - but there are some solutions:
apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
You should also disable window animations and other funky stuff:
http://www.techdrivein.com/2013/03/4-simple-tweaks-to-improv...
It sucks that I have to write this here and that countless others wasted their time researching this.