On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 04:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 02:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > >> Of note is the fact that the new GDM loads up the default desktop > >> wallpaper and it seems that a fancy wallpaper with animations and > >> effects would really slow down the GDM load time which is not a nice > >> user experience since the whole system feels slow at that point. If my > >> guess is right, keeping the wallpaper very simple is the way to go. > > > > Animated backgrounds should not be significantly slower at initial > > loading, unless you make them change at sub-second rate... > > (somewhat OT) > > I haven't really run any benchmarks or anything but the new GDM does > seem to load slower on a few systems I am running rawhide on including > this laptop. If you need any more information that can help fix it, let > me know. It is a known problem, see discussion on the gdm list a while ago. But it has nothing to do with backgrounds. _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
