Some effects are still present when low-gfx mode is enabled

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

[Impact]
· When moving a window we should just paint its shape, to save redraws.
· Grid animation should be disabled even on fade-out.

[Test Case]
1. $ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity lowgfx true
2. Move a window, make sure that just the shape is previewed.
3. Move a window in a corner/edge of the screen, make sure the animation that starts is just the "color overlay".
4. Open the Dash -> move the mouse over the launcher icon
5. the saturation effect should be immediate

[Potential Regression]
Please make sure that the animations work properly when lowgfx == false

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.5.0+17.10.20170721.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.5.0+17.10.20170721.1-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * GLibSignal: allow to block, unblock signals
  * UnitySettings: use glib::Signal blocking for ignoring setting
    changes
  * UnitySettings: listen to compiz profile status in order to set
    low_gfx value
  * Launcher: disable or reduce most icon effects on lowgfx (LP:
    #1700859)
  * PanelController: ensure we disconnect from signals on destruction
    (LP: #1504870)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:53:17 +0000

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.4.5+16.04.20171116 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted compiz into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.4.5+16.04.20171201.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Tested the effect are probably toggled on lowgfx using such package configuraiton:

apt-cache policy unity
unity:
  Installed: 7.4.5+16.04.20171201.3
  Candidate: 7.4.5+16.04.20171201.3

apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * Added option to disable blend in grid plugin (LP: #1700859)
  * Move: add options for showing only the window shape (filled or not)
    (LP: #1700859)

  [ Alberts Muktupāvels ]
  * Ensure that surfaces used by metacity theme have device scale set to
    1 . (LP: #1530277) (LP: #1530277)
  * Use AnyPropertyType when getting _MOTIF_WM_HINTS property. (LP:
    #1702297)

  [ Martin Wimpress ]
  * mate: Avoid artefacts of Windows Thumbnail Previews (LP: #1606369)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * move: damage all the border area in outline mode and ignore
    transparent colors (LP: #1700859)
  * grid: ignore alpha in colors when not blending, and fix animations
    (LP: #1700859)
  * resize: add support for disabling transparency and avoid over-
    damaging in outline mode (LP: #1700859)
  * Screen: add averageColor to get the current desktop average color
  * unity-lowgfx.ini: remove unsupported unity option

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:00:54 +0000

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for compiz has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.4.5+16.04.20171201.3

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unity (7.4.5+16.04.20171201.3) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * InputMonitor: add an unity class that monitors XInput2 events and
    converts them to XEvent
  * EdgeBarrierController: use InputMonitor to get the barrier events
    instead of relying on its implementation
  * DecorationsMenuLayout: use input monitor for menu scrubbing (LP:
    #1614597)
  * PanelView: use InputMonitor to track menu events
  * LockScreenPanel: use InputMonitor events instead of mouse polling
    for menu scrubbing
  * MenuManager: add support for mouse trackers with triangle algorithm
    support (LP: #1618405)
  * PanelView: scale gradient refinement properly
  * PanelService: don't allow to deactivate menus if they've been opened
    too shortly
  * LockScreenController: ignore icon_paths_changed signal in
    menumanager for Lockscreen
  * LockScreenController: use InputMonitor to get all the events and
    hide the Blank Window (LP: #1321075)
  * LockScreenController: use input monitor to get the events to switch
    monitor (LP: #1316862)
  * LauncherOptions: use track_obj to manage option changes (LP:
    #1622995)
  * UnityScreen: toggle gestures recognition on lock (LP: #1645507)
  * GnomeSessionManager: add gcancellable to instance and use it for
    calls with temporary proxies
  * BackgroundSettings: use gnome-bg to generate textures with proper
    scaling (LP: #1666359)
  * UnityWindow: safely check validity of UnityWindow from scaled one
    (LP: #1659847)
  * Panel: ensure the menu-manager tracker is updated to match monitor
    (LP: #1671432)
  * compiz-profile-setter: tool to update the current profile and use in
    systemd and Unity settings (LP: #1668950)
  * BGHash, UnityScreen: get desktop averageColor from compiz
  * Launcher: disable or reduce most icon effects on lowgfx (LP:
    #1700859)
  * PanelController: ensure we disconnect from signals on destruction
    (LP: #1504870)
  * tools: add migration script to set the default values for unity-
    lowgfx profile

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Properly handle the file manager copy dialog in
    FileManagerLauncherIcon and in StorageLauncherIcon. (LP: #1575452,
    LP: #1609845)
  * Correctly position the force quit dialog when scaling is different
    than 1.0 (LP: #1637991)
  * GnomeSession: Retrieve the session id using dbus if $XDG_SESSION_ID
    is not set
  * Round gtk scaling factor to closest integer. (LP: #1649736)
  * Keep the screen locked if rebooting with autologin. (LP: #1600389)
  * Use g_mkdir_with_parents instead of mkdir.
  * Lockscreen: always draw the background-color in the lockscreen (LP:
    #1702701)
  * Refactor the way UserAuthenticator is created and passed around.
    Handle failures to create new threads and fallback to a "Switch to
    greeter..." button in case of failure. (LP: #1311316)
  * Wait until the color buffer is cleared before suspending. (LP:
    #1532508)

  [ Kai-Heng Feng ]
  * UnitySettings: If scale-factor is not set, find and set right scale
    for HiDPI displays.

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * shouldn't create blur rectangles when there's ...