Thread: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)
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dwaradzyn is offline dwaradzyn
2010-07-30 , 09:35
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#224
Originally Posted by ndi View Post
Background update is what HAM does and I ditched it for that very reason. Every time I start it, bam. apt-worker and CPU ceil. That's what makes it slow. It takes a minute to see what version of whatever I have installed. Can't do anything while it's on because background apt locks out other apt stuff.

A slow fast app manager?
Currently both HAM and fapman do a foreground update. They both force users to wait until the update is complete and only then package list is shown. The difference between those two apps is that fapman shows more detailed information about what it is doing. I think this is a room for improvement.

What I want is that browsing packages should be possible immediately after launching fapman. The package list is propably 99.9 % the same as it was last time fapman was launched. Why not have a cached version that is accessible without a minute wait?