On Feb 2, 2008 8:52 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 2, 2008 5:18 AM, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2008 9:14 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Canola2 beta2 is out, fixing lots of issues reported by users and even > > > adding new features. > > > > Thanks for the update. It is definitely more responsive. Start up is a > > little slow but at least it keeps you informed. > > Actually it starts up faster than the previous, but now you have a > visual clue when the UI is loading so you get the impression "If it's > up, why don't it let me do my things already". Our major problems > right now are DBus activation of Canola-Daemon (that will start yet > another process) and then having it to check for DB consistency. To > improve the situation here, we could do like Canola1 and not kill > Canola-Daemon, it would start faster, but then we'd waste your > precious RAM while we're not running. NB: atabake and canolad will > shutdown themselves after a while when they notice no users are > connected. Leaving persistent daemons around is definitely *not* the way to go. RAM is not in huge supply and it might interfere with all the power-saving on the tablets. My comment was to indicate that the messages keeping you informed of the startup delay progress was a good thing. The startup time is acceptable. We all want things to start up instantaneously ... but reality often gets in the way. /Mike
