Comment 8 for bug 814833

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Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport) wrote :

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.