Fade to black in xscreensaver and Gnome

[Carey O'Shea]

Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:

>On 9/21/05, Paul M Edwards <pauledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I agree.
>>It's rather ridiculous that these effects look like crap on a modern
>>machine capable of much, much more.
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>>What really would make all of these effects faster and smoother would
>>be to have XGL, glitz, luminocity and related technologies that allow
>>today's video accelerators to do the work.
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>>Of course there should be software fallbacks and even the ability to
>>disable entirely the effects for older machines.
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>I'd love to be able to disable the damn thing.  I have a ThinkPad X31
>which is just under 2 years old (Radeon Mobility) and I find the
>flickering fade-out fairly annoying.  If it just "jumped" straight to
>the final stage it would be fine, hell if it went straight to a black
>background it would be better.
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>This has been one of my pet-peeves since I first noticed the feature...
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>Regards,
>Tom
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I've noticed that gk-sudo isn't fading anymore, which I'm not sure if 
that's a good thing, personally I loved the fading.

But gdm still fades really cheaply, when doing a "new login" and at 
bootup (there is a bug report for this though, "gdm loads slowly").

It's 2005, and we can't even do a fade effect. What are we coming to? :)