Menu animations are overwhelming

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff]

A kinda reoccurring complaint I've heard about Luna animations is that menu animation is abrupt and tiring. I can confirm that: Slingshot animation makes me stop for a little while and rationalize what has just happened. And moving through indicators in Wingpanel I have to put extra effort into filtering out the transitions and looking only at menus.

I suggest using an animation that's easier on the eyes, with simpler to grasp transitions and smoother easing mode, or not using an animation at all. I recall Cassidy decided to not use any animations at all in the Compiz profile after a lot of testing on different machines.

Reporting the bug as follow-up to http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/elementary-os-luna-beta-1-available-for.html#comment-788843587 discussion

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: gala 0.1-0~r287+pkg16~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30~precise1-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: gala
Date: Thu Feb 7 16:05:57 2013
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20121001-15:16
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gala
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Harvey Cabaguio (harveycabaguio)]

I really like the popover animations in gnome-shell. They're very subtle and nice.