I understand and agree gnome-shell's animations are poor in places. Sub- optimal performance of the shell in general makes them sometimes miss frames and stutter. Plus the chosen easing curves are also questionable (bug 1713021).
But these are all fixable bugs. I would be disappointed if we disabled animations to work around the problems rather than fixing the problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716775 Title: Add option to disable gnome-shell animations Status in ubuntu-settings package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I believe doing so will provide the better experience for most users. Those that see use in it can enable if desired. Am filing this bug first rather than specific against gnome-shell because this is immediately remedied in settings & there are reports of other poor behavior than the below test case. Test case 1: In current 'pseudo' default of xorg In any common video player (totem, vlc, mpv, ect.) open a video. Go from window to fullscreen, fullscreen to windowed, notice the distortion. May be even worse in wayland or when using hw decoding. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: ubuntu-settings 17.10.15 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-12.13-generic 4.12.8 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Sep 12 17:21:52 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-10 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170908) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubuntu-settings UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-settings/+bug/1716775/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp