Comment 3 for bug 641899

It's actually a blocking issue (waiting 30 seconds to load software center on a netbook is something we can't ignore), software center feels like the slowest application shipping in ubuntu, even slower than openoffice.

I guess part of this issue is the choice of python as the language, but of course, I'm not proposing a rewrite.

Maybe we could make the software center a bit more modular, like it loads modules only when needed.
For example: there's no reason to load the whole software center if you're double clicking a deb downloaded from the web (skype, adobeair, dropbox whatever), you could just provide a small window with app name and description, so it will be lighter to load (then provide a button to load the whole software center with sidebars and whatever).