Resizing windows should use a more fluid animation.

[Chadwick-ferguson]

re-sizing windows stretches text then snaps back to normal

[Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann)]

You can turn that off by setting org.pantheon.desktop.gala.animations.snap-duration in dconf to 0.

[Chadwick-ferguson (chadwick-ferguson)]

Then we should change that setting on installation no?

[Removed by request (removed2115751)]

Perhaps changing the animation to hide the contents of the window while maximizing it is a more 'pretty' approach.

[angelique (ange)]

It's not a bug.

[Niklas Rosenqvist (niklas-s-rosenqvist)]

It should be considered a bug. This looks awful when maximizing a small window.

[George Nicolson (aggronfg)]

By adding a fade effect of the window contents between the un-maximized and maximized image it could look better.

[Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann)]

Disabling it is not desired, and making the fade would require us to have some things we currently don't have and it could potentially make things a lot more unstable. An implementation in mutter itself might be more usable.

[Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon1997)]

@aggronfg: I couldn't have tried to explain it any better. I don't see why it couldn't do that, and with the current animation's speed, it should look like a smooth resize.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Tom, I'm revisiting this as it's been a long-requested feature of mine. Is this still looking impractical/unstable? It'd be _awesome_ if we could get a quick, smooth crossfade between window states.

[Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon1997)]

I think this would be great for at least Freya +1

[Mike Schmidt (michael-schmidt82)]

Dan requested help from the community to verify bugs. I think with the 10 people that marked this bug as affecting them and testing the latest gala this is valid and we should polish this.