Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31295
Affects: ubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
The animated cursor that is displayed when the system is busy flickers a
lot, and by a lot I mean to the point where it is really distracting. It
looks a bit like it is described in bug #29240, that frames disappear. I
am however running a vanilla Ubuntu Dapper - completely updated, with
Gnome only.
The phenomenon appears from what I can tell everywhere, both when say
opening a large directory (/usr/bin) in nautlius or starting new
applications, but it is most clear - and annoying - when opening web
pages in Firefox or Epiphany, perhaps because they use the combined
arrow+circle instead of just the circle.
Sometimes during the loading it stabilizes for a short while and looks
ok, so it has the capability - so I kind of assume that it usually can't
keep up somehow?
I've tried some other mouse themes from gnome-look and it's the same
thing.
The hardware should not be an issue since it is very snappy apart from
the fact that this is on a laptop, and the screen is one of those flat
ones that run in 60Hz only. That could have somethiong to do with it.
The cursor is smooth and nice on my Breeze desktop with much lower
specs, so it's either Dapper or that it's a laptop. In either case, I
think there needs to be some kind of solution, because I find myself
more and more annoyed at this.
If nothing else works, perhaps Ubuntu could provide a non-animated extra
mouse theme by default? (Thinking about future generations also).
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