On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Look, surely we can remove the fade effect from alt-TAB without > affecting other pieces of the Compiz experience? If not, that's a bug > that we need to fix. >
No it is not possible without a major overhaul of the way that plugin works. It also requires extensive work in other plugins. > Regardless: > > - please do not fade between underlying windows during ALt-TAB, the r > esulting noise on the screen is extremely disturbing Put animations framework to the top of my work items and then we can deprecate the fade plugin > - please be super-fast on the actual "picker", at the moment it's very > delayed there This will need heavy lifting too - currenly we are waiting for the decorator process to draw our picker window and it is slow. I don't see any other way to do this other than to completely rewrite these plugins. > > Mark > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical > Desktop Experience Team, which is subscribed to Unity. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683635 > > Title: > remove fade from the compiz plugin list > > Status in Ayatana Design: > Fix Released > Status in Unity: > Fix Committed > Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Committed > > Bug description: > Alt-Tab between applications under Unity requires a fade that takes longer > than 100 milliseconds, placing the action beyond the response limits > recommended by the GNOME HIG. > > Since I am capable of alt-tabbing at 5+ keypresses per-second (if the LIFO > order is predictable - see bug #682973) the fading and alt-tab system needs > to give a reliable visual response within the window between subsequent > Alt-tab invocations. > > If the user is working ahead of the display system intermediate drawing steps > should be dropped and only the cumulative state shown to the user. To > reproduce: > > 1. Press Alt-tab lots (eg. 20+ times at 5-10 Hz) > 2. Release over the window of your choice > > Expected: that window immediately appears usable within 100 milliseconds > Actual: Alt-tab pager carries on "catching up" with the user (and since there > at multiple windows open this is statistically unlikely to be the window that > the user released on). > > The many-many-presses is an extreme example but hopefully clearly > demonstrates the disconnect between the user's input and the tab pager/fade > system. > > > -- Sam Spilsbury -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683635 Title: remove fade from the compiz plugin list -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
