One slider for all Animation speeds

[Rovanion]

The issue is that many users have many preferences and many users have many different computers. For example: In Linux Mint 9 the default animation speeds were reduced, inherited from Ubuntu and if I'm right they are set to complete in 80ms. Now this is too fast for my seven year old Pentium 4, the result being that all windows simply pop up without any animation what so ever which is ugly.

This bug was originally going to be a call for slower animations, but realising that one size does not fit all I started looking at other options, and one that I find quite universally working is an animation time slider, a global one. If a user wants to change the animation speeds, he or she has to go into Compiz Config Settings Mananger and hunt down all the different modules that are responsible for animations and then change the animation speed. Because it's not just in the animations module that controls animation speeds, there is also exposé for example. And that is not user friendly.

What I propose is a single slider that looks up the saved variables of each module that has animation, and changes it by a percentage defined by the slider added to simple-ccsm. Alternatively there could be two sliders split between window animations and accessibility animations - such as exposé.

Simple Compiz Config Settings Mananger or simple-ccsm is a project that doesn't seem to have been touched in a long while, there is no upstream to file a bug to. That makes it up to someone else to implement this idea.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

Hi Rovanion,

I'd rather see this addressed upstream. I pushed it towards Compiz. Not sure they'll consider it a bug, would have been better as a blueprint, but at least they'll know about it.

Clem.

[Rovanion (rovanion-luckey)]

The issue with having it adressed by someone upstream is that the upstream guy does not exist for this project any more. There is no active development going on.

Now that doesn't mean that you cannot push the patch upstream, of course you should try that. But you cannot expect the nonexistent upstream to fix it. The tricky part then becomes, who would like to fix this if you personally don't want to. Should I try to ask on the Linux Mint forums or a Compiz devel list? Tough the fact is that Linux Mint is one of the few distributions that uses Simple-ccsm and so it seems less likely that someone outside the large LM community would fix it.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

I added it to Ubuntu(simple-ccsm), let's see what happens. I still think this should be a blueprint though.

[Rovanion (rovanion-luckey)]

You could be right about that. But let's see if we get any response on this bug first.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.