F8devel - UI "responsiveness" improvements

[dragoran]

On 6/14/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 06:58 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> > I'd like to suggest a goal for future Fedora of ensuring every
> > application / task performed with Fedora actually provides user feedback
> > at a minimum 1 {one} second interval.
> >
> > Culprits:
> > - anaconda between go-ahead with install and first package installing
> > {especially noticeable because the {boring} X screen saver kicks in. You
> > then move the mouse to get the screen back - but there is no update to
> > the screen for maybe one minute or more.
> >
> > - pup during an update run with about 30-40 packages. It took nearly an
> > hour. Each time an app covered its windows they may not have been
> > redrawn for some minutes.
>
> Just to clarify, it's not that you want continuous screen updates, it's
> that you don't want to see apps in the middle of redraw.
>
> We could solve this trivially by turning on automatic compositing by
> default but I don't think that's ready yet.


multithreading would also solve this isses...
use a thread for the gui and one that does the real work.
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