gksudo should use AIGLX to produce perfect fade effects
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gksu (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: sudo
The fade in/out effects produced by gksudo are, and have always been since Warty, absolutely ugly. Slow, choppy, you can see the effect being drawn block by block. Looks very cheap :-/
Since we now have AIGLX by default, and are even starting to consider super mega fancy complicated stuff like compiz, I think it's only logical/consistent for gksudo to take advantage of AIGLX as well, so it can produce perfect fade effect, that are fast, glitch free. perfectly smooth, not choppy or anything that looks cheap/crap.
Despite the numerous, and fancy, effect that compiz is capable of, using only of few kilobytes of code (that still amazes me!), hopefully it should not be impossible to implement fade effects that "just work".
Obviously not all computers have drivers that support AIGLX, and and even those that do, may change video card, or decide to turn 3D support on and off for various reasons, so support AIGLX should not be set in stone when installing Ubuntu on the machine, but rather detected on th efly at run time, every time gksudo is invoked.
Obviously this is a featur erequest not a bug per se, but I am not allowed to change the "importance" field apparently...