Fedora 9 Feature suggestion - The start menu and caching

[Mark]

Hey,

Fedora 8 has dropped the readahead program which was fine because it
wasn't speeding up anything at all (not in my experience) but i do
think we need some kind of a caching for the start menu and serveral
other programs.

This is the current case when you install fedora (any version) and go
to the start menu:
- Sometimes it doesn't even show up on the first click simply because
it still has to load/start(? just feels slow)
- When it pops up (the first time after boot) the icons are not there
at first.. they come quick but they should be pre cached

What would be best with the start menu:
- During boot the start menu and all it's icons (actually all the
default icons) should be cached so that the start menu pops up right
away when you click on it and all the icons are in place and vissible.

Now about the caching itself.
Wouldn't it be best to precache all the applications that are gonna be
started anyway? like:
- gome-desktop
- gnoma-panel
- the default gnome applets
- nautilus
- firefox
- the default mail client (forgot the name)
- the default wallpaper
- precache all the icons that where on the desktop in the last session
so they appear fast when gnome starts
- perhaps also GDM so that you don't see the picture building up like
you see at this moment in nearly all linux distributions.
- Also for gdm: perhaps a good idea to fade it in like in windows..
was also requested here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/22903 but it
doesn't seem like they got far with it. it's not in gutsy (i didn't
see it).

And perhaps some less importand programs that get used often:
- Pidgin
- the most used irc client (whichever one that is)
- and probable a dozen more

So what do you think of those suggestions?
lets make Fedora 9 more user friendly than Fedora 8 (not that 8 or 7
are not friendly).

Btw.. what is gonna be the idea with Fedora 9? is it gonna be a
release with a ton of new features but no (or nearly no) improvements
to current features? or is it gonne be a release to improve all the
current features of fedora? that last part would be good for fedora.

Mark