Agreed. Logout is in a worse state than login though IMO. When I logout, this is what I see: All the windows either flicker white, or to an "unthemed" state for a few seconds (looks like the gnome-settings-daemon is quitting before everything else), it flashes to the console for another second, then the greeter flashes up. Definitely not smooth. Gnome-shell + GDM is much smoother, no jarring flashes or anything, and logging out has a bit of a fade effect.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Meek <shrouded.cl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Given the new behaviour of Unity-greeter, it's somewhat astounding that > the transition from log-in to desktop was not addressed. We still have a > very stuttery implementation currently. > > Now, going back, I believe Sam Spilsbury posted on his blog about the idea > of a mini compositor to alleviate that. (And, for all I know, this may be > "fixed" by Wayland.) But I want to propose that we create a consistent > animation for Unity to appear after login and disappear at > shutdown/lockscreen. Right now, things just appear, period. Wallpaper, full > stop. Top bar with "Ubuntu Desktop", fullstop. Indicators, full stop. Etc. > > Instead of this, why don't we use a small animation to symbolically show > that the user in the login box is taking over*, pass to a mini-compositor > to make sure their background stays on the screen, hand it all over to > compiz and keep the wall up. Now, from there, make it so that Unity doesn't > show up until it's all ready/loaded and have the top bar slide down from > the top of the screen and once that is complete, THEN slide in the launcher > from the left and lock it in place. > > Just an idea that needs some refinement still, have at it! > > *My current idea for it doesn't work as well for login as it does locking > the screen, so I'll just detail the lock screen animation: Using the > current behavior of the screen fading before locking, we have the whole > screen fading to a black, as this is happening, the launcher slides out to > the left, the top bar fades to it's lightDM transparency, the screen over > all continues to fade until its overlay fade matches the Unity-greeter > login box. From there the overlay would condense and resize to the login > box itself. Then it would fade out properly or something. > > Sorry I don't have an animation, came up with the idea and wanted to > share, hopefully what I've said it clear enough that you can picture it. > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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