----- Original Message ----- > > In fact, I'd go as far as saying that the animations not being smooth > > should > > be considered a bug. That'd mean synchronous I/O in mutter, or a horrible > > block I/O scheduler in the Linux kernel. > > I've never seen smooth gnome-shell overview animations on my Intel Clarkdale > (2 Cores, 4 Threads, 3.2GHz Frequency, 733MHz GPU Frequency) system from > 2010. Same on different other machines, all newer (and better iGPU). Seems > like you are pretty lucky. > > Especially the fade in transition on user login has never been smooth either: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747599 > > Anyway, animations should be disabled on virtual machines, but they are not: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771311 Regression caused by this? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745104 I was told that the virgl support would be built into Fedora to go along with the GNOME releases. That was added in GNOME 3.20. > Maybe animations should even be disabled on all machines older than (e.g.) 5 > years by default. I've seen smooth animations on 8/10-year old machines, though an SSD upgrade will help the effects of the sub-par scheduler for interactive uses. _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
