Comment 5 for bug 1010898
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| Dimitri Nüscheler (dimitri-nuescheler) wrote | #5 |
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I concluded slightly wrong in my last post. If blurring can lower CPU usage it is likely that it doesn't take place on the CPU.
I wouldn't know about Windows 7 - I know it has some blur, but only for very small areas as far as I remember.
And blur isn't really my problem because I can live without it, but then there is still the normal transparency which slows things down a bit.
I might be a bit picky about performance and smoothness, in my opinion anything below a constant 60 frames per second is bad, but 10.04 is that smooth on my (not very old) system. Even on a 7 year old laptop of mine with intel graphics. Unfortunately it is no longer supported in a year.
A workaround would be to disable transparency (but that's not possible - or is it?), or to use static transparency (but that looks inconsistent, and also causes a slight delay during the transition from desktop to dash).