GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124321
Animations, drawing window contents when moving windows, Metacity and a starved system.
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
Distribution: Unknown Package: metacity Severity: minor Version: GNOME2.4.0 2.6.x Gnome-Distributor: Gentoo Linux Synopsis: Animations, drawing window contents when moving windows, Metacity and a starved system. Bugzilla-Product: metacity Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: 2.6.x Description: Please describe your feature request: Dear Developer(s), I use a system with 16MB of video memory. I just cannot afford to have any, repeat any, form of window animations and other 'sha-bangs' enabled. For the sake of the computer resource abjected and deprived users like me, will it be possible to provide just one option to turn off all animations known to Metacity, be it during maximizing, minimizing, resizing, moving or otherwise? As a result of my resource starved system, moving windows around the desktop is painfully agonizing to my sensitive eyes. Kwin , KDE's window manager, enables users to solve this problem by providing a little option that prevents the window manager from drawing the contents of a window when it is been moved around the screen. I plead with you, the developer(s), to provide this option for users who need to save every system resource they can. For users like myself, the economics of window behavior is more than crucial. Despite the fact that Kwin is considered the bloat queen of window managers, it feels a lot more snappier and responsive compared to simple, clean and focused Metacity because of the afore-mentioned options. Please do not take my comparisons as a rebuttal. It is far from that. I'm just trying hard to give a simple, straightforward and concrete observation from a users perspective as to why I think these options are essential in forthcoming versions of Metacity. Under normal circumstances, I would probably had switched over to another window manager that provides me these options, but I like the direction Metacity heading so I have taking my time to file this report and hope for the best. I like ending bug reports on a good note. So let me just say, âMetacity ROCKS!â :-) ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-10-10 15:27 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, metacity-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Funny, I have 2Mb video ram, 96Mb system ram, a PentiumMMX at 266MHz, and no problems. My old 8Mb (system ram, only) 486 33Mhz box ran OS/2 which had more "sha-bangs" and was also fine - if not snappier.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92867 ***
Gregory Merchan: It's indeed surprising the gnome runs on your hardware specifications. Do you use large apps like mozilla, openoffice, etc ?
I wouldn't exactly call this report a duplicate. This report addressed two issue -turning off animations -turning off the contents of a window when it is moved around the screen. I do agree the first issue is a duplicate, but I don't think the second is. Please do not hesitate to correct me on this.
the reduced_resources stuff describe on the other bug does include wireframe move/resize as well.
Hmmm...okay, I really didn't understand want the reduced_resource thingy was all about when I first read it, but it make much more sense know. Sorry for the trouble.
it's no problem; filing bug reports is part of the free software process. Sorry if I was overly terse; it was not my intention. I can certainly see how that was not as clear as it might have been.