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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <wordpress@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: 	joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>
To: 	mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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

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