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Bug 535123 - Drawer opening is too slow
Drawer opening is too slow
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
2.21.x
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
--do_not_change-- [gnome3-wontfix]
: 590093 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-27 17:43 UTC by Kamil Páral
Modified: 2011-03-29 04:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22

Attachments
drawer.ogv (57.55 KB, video/ogg)
2008-05-27 17:43 UTC, Kamil Páral 		Details

Description Kamil Páral 2008-05-27 17:43:27 UTC 
The opening of the drawer is too slow to use comfortably. User has to wait a long time before seeing the contents of the drawer. See the attached video.

Please improve opening speed or provide a checkbox in drawer settings to disable opening animation.

Other information:
The speed is slighly better when using Metacity instead of Compiz, but still it is too slow to use regularly. One would almost screem when used often, the waiting is really annoying. Effects are nice, but only up to reasonable extent :)
Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2008-05-27 17:43:59 UTC 
Created attachment 111622 [details]
drawer.ogv
Comment 2 thomas 2008-07-29 18:09:59 UTC 
Agreed.  Most of these things are painfully slow and should be either eliminated or have a "no eyecandy" preference.  I'm trying to fix my disk not watch a multimedia extravaganza.
Comment 3 Jordan Erickson 2008-09-04 17:36:33 UTC 
This bug has been around for a while... very annoying to drawer users!
Comment 4 Philip Withnall 2009-07-29 17:13:22 UTC 
*** Bug 590093 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Peter Avramucz 2009-08-03 16:52:27 UTC 
Any update about this bug?
Ubuntu also has something similar: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/108951
Comment 6 Ritvars 2010-02-15 20:06:15 UTC 
This user has the same problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTpvLsbh9p0

drawer is really nice feature of gnome panels, and i truly cant understand why this bug is not fixed..
it makes drawers unusable, because noone wants laggy component(s) on his desktop.

please fix it, or at least disable animation and make it open instantly.

tnx & gl
Comment 7 Jordan Erickson 2010-02-24 19:28:42 UTC 
FWIW, it looks like Gnome 2.29.91 (tested in Ubuntu Lucid) fixes this issue. It has a very small delay but it isn't anywhere near as bad - looks like it just takes a second to slide out (probably making it actually look like an opening drawer - very smooth).
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2011-03-29 04:52:13 UTC 
For GNOME 3, we removed the drawers from gnome-panel -- we believe they don't fit that well in GNOME 3, and there were always many issues (including usability issues) with them. We feel it's better this way.