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[shane lee <shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tend to agree in part.  The animations are overly fast in my opinion and
don't look too good because of it, especially when compared to the likes of
KDE with it's buttery animations.
If animations are going to be so fast  they look choppy then doesn't it
make them pointless in the first place?

I will take minimize/restore as a good example:

I click the minimize button and you can tell the window is scaling but it
just sort of jumps to the launcher, rather than guiding ones eye to where
it has gone.  It is the launcher icon glow that does this more than the
transition animation.
Restoring from minimize does seem a little smoother but the window just
appears from nowhere, rather than appearing to scale from the launcher.

If you look at the minimize animation in KDE, it is a thing of beauty.
The window scales perfectly and smoothly to it's position in the taskbar on
minimize and scales back from the taskbar on restore.

The animation explains perfectly what is happening to the window and where
it's gone and does it oh so smoothly.

I do realise the smoother (slower?) animations can sometimes give the
impression of a less responsive desktop and that is probably a factor for
the way the animations are in unity but I have to say it just seems like a
pointless use of them and you may as well go the whole hog and remove
animations altogether?

On 13 April 2012 21:40, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 04/13/2012 03:30 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> On 13 April 2012 20:14, Ryan Gauger<rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/13/2012 11:50 AM, Conscious User wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I was wondering - why are the animations in Ubuntu not nearly as smooth
>>>>> as Mac OS X - or even Windows? Take a look at the workspace switcher -
>>>>> it is not nearly as smooth as it would be if it were in Windows. There
>>>>> is no reason for this is there? Hardware should not be a problem, since
>>>>> Windows 7 and Windows 8 are both running on my PC, and definitely have
>>>>> smoother animations than Ubuntu does. So I think that the animations in
>>>>> Ubuntu should be as or almost as smooth as the animations on Windows.
>>>>> Any ideas on how to do this, or should I file a bug? Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Explaining what do you mean by "smooth" would be nice.
>>>>
>>>> If you mean frame rate, I see no noticeable lagging or choppiness
>>>> while using the workspace switcher. If you refer to aesthetics,
>>>> you need to give more details.
>>>>
>>>>  Sorry about that - I was in a hurry composing the email! The frame rate
>>> while windows are open. I guess the adjective to use here (could not
>>> think
>>> of a better one) would be that the animations for workspace switcher are
>>> a
>>> little "choppy". There is no lagging, but it would be nice and easier on
>>> the
>>> eyes to have a nicer animation, one that is smoother. From the way I see
>>> it,
>>> workspace switcher animations keep getting nicer every time a new
>>> version of
>>> Unity/Ubuntu is released. If you look at the Windows 8 start screen and
>>> the
>>> Ubuntu workspace switcher, even though they are not the same animations,
>>> the
>>> Windows 8 start screen after login definitely has more frames than the
>>> workspace switcher does. Thanks!
>>>
>> Are you using Unity or Unity-2D?  Are you sure?
>>
>> Colin
>>
> I am definitely using Unity 3D (with Compiz). The animation seems to kind
> of jump from one frame to five frames, leaving four frames behind, kind of.
> It just seems to me to be a bit choppy. Not laggy, but just choppy. It's
> not like the bug that was in Oneiric where on some websites, when Dash was
> opened with Active Blur enabled, it was slow. What I am talking about is
> kind of like that, but not slow. It's just the animation. It's kind of hard
> to explain :) If you need me to explain it more clearly, please let me
> know! Thanks and have a great weekend!!!
>
> ---Ryan
>
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