On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 07:05 -0600, Ian Santopietro wrote: > If you're having trouble seeing the animations, you might try setting > a slow keybpard shortcut in the composite plugin settings. > > Actually, I really like the speed of the Ubuntu animations. The > windows animations are definitely too slow, and sometimes I feel like > I have to wait for the animation. > > That said, I don't think there is an open animation by default. This > could definitely be changed. Just make sure it's fast. 120 Ms is a > great speed.
There is an open animation. Fading in for 80ms. And I guess what I see in my system - that accounting for a pretty massive frame dropping then a 80ms animation might never hit the screen. Or worse, be a 1-2 frame flicker. Other people interested in playing with this can hit alt-f2 and type "about:config". Then find the Animation plugin and tune your animation times to 300ms or something where you can definitely perceive the animations. I am totally with you - animations must be very quick subtle hints. What needs consideration is why we drop frames. Cheers, Mikkel > On Apr 6, 2011 1:55 AM, "Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" > <mikkel.kamst...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 01:25 -0400, Melvin Garcia wrote: > >> Hi guys/gals. My name is Melvin Garcia, and I'm new to the list. > >> > >> I was comparing Mac's Quartz and Windows' Aero animations to > Ubuntu's > >> default animation settings and noticed a few things. First of all > >> Ubuntu's animations are too fast, to the point of being almost > >> invisible and in some cases totally invisible. > >> > >> Quartz and Aero both feature elegant, smooth animations. They catch > >> the eye in a pleasant way, but are unobtrusive at the same time. I > >> believe the current Unity experience, which is very elegant could > be > >> enhanced by slower, smoother animations. Glide 2 is not meant for > >> "open animation", the window doesn't fade in, it just appears and > >> animates very quickly. Glide 1, fade or zoom are better suited for > >> this event. These animations feature a nice "fade in" effect > enhancing > >> the experience. > >> > >> "Close animation" should have animations which feature "fade out", > >> Glide 2, fade and zoom all work well here. > >> > >> I know having faster animations can make the system feel faster, > but > >> what's the point in having animations when the user can't > appreciate > >> them? Windows has smooth open, close and minimize animations and > yet, > >> the system feels fast. Desktop animations shouldn't be too slow nor > >> too fast, they have to walk right in between. > > > > Interesting. I didn't even know we had window animations; I don't > see > > any. > > > > Or actually now that you point it out - if I focus very hard I think > I > > can see the fade in when mapping them. But I may be imagining that. > > > > This could just be an effect of frame dropping (I have i945 which is > > renowned for spectacularly bad performance :-)). But still; this > used to > > work with the 0.8 series of Compiz. I guess we need some graphics > > experts to weigh in. > > > > Cheers, > > Mikkel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
