RFC: show a "loading..." text while booting Plasma Active underneath the spinner

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday, November 8, 2011 17:30:50 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> It's not necessarily the same with a tablet. For example it makes sense to
> turn off (or hibernate) a tablet when you go to bed because it does not
> necessarily need to be charged every night and you don't need it when
> you sleep.

my wetab lasts ~3 days when in sleep. sleeping it overnight doesn't take much 
battery at all. i've travelled with it for 18 out of the last 24 days now so 
i'm getting a good feel for this by now ;)

> But typical usecases for a tablet involve either "just wanting to quickly
> look something up on the internet" or doing work while on the way.
> In both cases it is annoying when you have to wait for the device to
> boot up first.

.. which is why we should rely on sleep. 

i've got a few other tablets here at the house now running various versions of 
Android and they all take quite a while to boot.

i'd love to have instant boot, but it's also not something that we should 
hyper-focus on when we have much more pressing issues to deal with. this is, 
imho, a level 3 or 4 priority item.

things like software updates or a great workflow for adding photos to the 
device are higher (level 1 and 2 respectively .. again imho)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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