Fade to black in xscreensaver and Gnome

[Carey O'Shea]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>>I've noticed that gk-sudo isn't fading anymore, 
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>I noticed this too, in today's gksudo update. I nearly meant to send a
>private mai to Michael to thank him vigorously !
>I hope he has the power/permission to treat the log-out dialog in the
>same fashion.
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>>which I'm not sure if  that's a good thing
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>Sure it's a good thing ! :-)
>It was bad in the eye-candy dept. because the fading was so slow and
>choppy that it looked crap and made the Gnome look really cheap. It was
>also bad in the usability/productity dept. because everytime you needed
>to do admin tasks, you had to wait ages before you could type your
>password.
>Thanks to Michael, both problems are now fixed ! :-)
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>>, personally I loved the fading.
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>Sure, would love to have it..... once they get it working, that is, it
>must be smooth, to be good looking, and it must be very fast, so that it
>doesn't get in your way when you need to access admin related programs.
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>Well that's how I feel about it anyway, YMMV ;-)
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>>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").
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>Yes indeed, hopefully Michael can do some magic there too !
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>Vince
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You should try "New login" and then logging in as yourself and resuming 
the session -- there is a *very* nice fade that happens, why can't that 
be used, is it not smooth on all machines or?

The gk-sudo fade wasn't slow on my machine, but it didn't look 100% 
perfect. It's probably much worse on different machines or slower 
machines. So that is a good reason to get rid of it.