Ubuntu
desktop-effects package

enabling desktop effects should be smoother

Bug #146972 reported by zerwas
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desktop-effects (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: desktop-effects

By enabling the effects in the preferences the window decoration is "flickering". I hope everybody know what this means and is also seeing this issue.

This does look very unprofessional indeed and my suggestion would be to grey out everything (same method like gksudo uses?) and show the new desktop again when compiz has taken control over the windows. That way it would be a smooth transition.

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Jeremy Visser (jeremy-visser) wrote :

Agreed, but really — Windows Vista is not much better. :)

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zerwas (zerwas) wrote :

> Agreed, but really — Windows Vista is not much better. :)

Since when should this be a reason to not doing it better? It shouldn't be hard to do a solution like i suggested. But it would look much better.

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote :

Jeremy, I think what he means to say is that when one enables desktop effects, all windows flicker and everything disappears before reappearing with effects on. He is suggesting a smoother transition between disabled effects and enabled effects.

Changed in desktop-effects:
status: New → Confirmed
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zerwas (zerwas) wrote :

Thank you Nanley, that was exactly what i meant by this.

But it does not seem that somebody is interested in fixing this.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.

Changed in desktop-effects (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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