Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 22:25 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: > > >> I saw Scott removing animation from gnome login. What's the reason for >> that? I don't see any motivation or reference to a bugreport. >> >> > There's a reference to an upstream bug report in the patch itself. It > was removed because it takes up more time of the boot/login sequence > than it should (around 3s). > As a user, I did not notice the boot speed improvement. What I noticed was a really clumsy experience of panel background popping up before everything else.
> In practice, there are better ways to signify the desktop is ready than > have each individual component individually animating in their own way. > > One good idea would be that the screen holds at the login screen after > entering your password (e.g. with "Logging in...") and the desktop fades > in when everything's ready. > > This is something we need to explore and apply as soon as possible. I must say I feel that disabling the animation does not improve things to an extent that would justify a really bad visual experience that we now have. Mat -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss