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[Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>]

 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.cloud@xxxxxxxxx>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.
>
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