There are some good suggestions coming in from my blog about paring back the interface. I'll forward some of them here.
I didn't know about the gconf key /Apps/Metacity/General/reduced_resources but it seems like it could be generalised and exposed in appearance preferences. I think we should generalise the a11y prefs too. We'll put some Canonical design work into Appearance Preferences for 10.10, and perhaps this could be part of that. Mark -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Mark Shuttleworth] Comment: "Less is more. But still less." Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:09:45 +0000 From: Jo-Erlend Schinstad <wordpr...@markshuttleworth.com> Reply-To: joerlend.schins...@gmail.com <joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> To: m...@canonical.com Thanks for a good post, Mark. I'm very glad to hear you say this, or to read you write it. One thing that's been a huge annoyance to me for ages, is the excessive usage of animations. I use FreeNX and other terminal services a lot, and these things really kills performance. I really hate having to wait a minute or several, before I can enter my password for gksu. It's very tempting to enable /Apps/gksu/disable-grab, though that's not a very good idea. Another animation I really hope we can remove, is when you press F11 in Firefox to go into fullscreen. The top animates out of the top of the window. We do have a gconf key that could be respected by more applications, I think: /Apps/Metacity/General/reduced_resources. Both of the animations I've mentioned should respect it, I think. I know there are other animations that's been bothering me, but I can't for the life of me remember what they are right now. Thanks again, Jo-Erlend Schinstad You can see all comments on this post here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/330#comments Trash it: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=trash&c=324688 Spam it: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=spam&c=324688
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