A visual indication of loading over the entire drawn window would be better - similar to how webOS does the "glowing" application logo.

The problem is that we're running all this interpreted code that requires runtime engines and on-the-fly coversion, which, IMHO, has no place being called "apps", especially on a device that was not built with the framework in mind. webOS was built with it baked in and it works spectacularly well for that.

I for one, will take native code and straight binaries over QML, Python and whatever else, any day of the week on the N900.

Having said that, I still think this is a good idea. Snapshot before window destruction and paint that snapshot while the application is briefly loading - yet still displaying the title bar "spinner" to indicate this.