loading application splashscreen is blurry and sometime not matching content

It's the last screen of the app if you didn't close it properly (i.e. you either rebooted or the app was killed).

This is as it was designed so adding design for comments.

seeing this on a lot of apps when launching. seems like the splashscreen is shown very briefly, then switches to a screenshot of some previous state, then the correct app screen is shown.

This only makes sense if we actually really open the app to the last screen which I assume was the intent

Yeah that was the intent, but we've no idea if apps are capable of doing this or not.

The blurriness was to save memory, but also to indicate to the suer that the app isn't live yet. If we fix the bluriness, we'll need some other way to indicate to the user the app is "resuming"

this is personal feedback for design - I don't think we should be displaying a screen shot as part of the application launch, because currently we have no idea of the context. I would say that this could only be done if there was some way for the application to intimate to the sdk (then the shell could check) that the app is using a "saved state" approach. Otherwise to the user this just appears as a stale frame.
i.e.
today it's
launch app -> splash screen -> last available screen shot -> fresh render from app

I think for any closed app it should be
launch app -> splash screen -> fresh render from app

there is a spinner on top of the screenshot, that should be enough to indicate it's resuming?

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.10+15.10.20150713-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.10+15.10.20150713-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  [ Albert Astals Cid ]
  * Revert Session Screenshotter (LP: #1473476)

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Dismiss the apps spread if greeter gets shown (LP: #1471609)

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