Should gnome-panels enable_animations key be true by default?

Shane Fagan shanepatrickfagan at ubuntu.com
Thu Apr 22 01:00:45 BST 2010


On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:49 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> Why are we animating everything? Does it make Ubuntu look cool and
> professional when the panels slide into the screen at login? I don't
> think so. I think it looks cheap, especially since it doesn't always
> work as intended. It also makes our desktop less useful for
> terminalserver environments, which I think is a very important stage
> for Ubuntu to shine. My question is written in the subject. My
> personal opinion is that no,
> /apps/panel/toplevels/panelname/enable_animations should be false by
> default.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Jo-Erlend Schinstad
> 
Hey Jo,

Good point but really I dont think anyone would feel strongly about it.
Plus its a little late in the release to be changing things even as
small as this. So maybe (if the panel is still there) we could talk
about setting it to false in 10.10, so talk about it when that cycle has
started. 

-fagan




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