On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 02:24 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:13:19PM +0000, Seb James wrote: > > 1) It would be really nice if the "reduced resources" switch was > > available in the normal Gnome Windows preferences UI > > (Desktop->Preferences->Windows). The "reduced resources" switch I mean > > is the one availabe in gconf-editor as > > apps->metacity->general->reduced_resources on my Debian Sarge desktop. > > And what the purpose would this serve? If a slow connection means that > you want to have GNOME use less resources, it should just use less > resources. Meaning: there shouldn't be an option to do the right thing > (if detectable).
Hello Olav, The reduced_resources switch (as far as I can see) just makes windows into a wireframe when you move them or re-size them. I don't think that program logic could correctly determine the user's preference. Some folks will want the windows to be fully-viewable as they move them, and will live with the extra lag. Others (I'm in this group) prefer the windows to show up as a wireframe so that they are responsive. I think if we were to choose some cut off point in terms of bandwidth/lagtime and switch to wireframe windows at that point, then people would get upset when windows had a behaviour which they didn't expect. I think users should be given the choice. best regards, Seb _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
