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>Did they already add "turn off all animations and needless movements, fades and transparencies" option? Yes, ~10 years ago.

michaelmrose 7y ago
This highlights the difference between defaults and options. Options that would solve a users problems often go unused leaving the user with a negative opinion. Maybe as part of first run it ought to set a default useful based on current performance. It might also be worthwhile to think about how it degrades under pressure. Is it possible to notice frames dropped or delayed and degrade more gracefully.
- simion314 7y ago
  I think there are some blacklisted video cards. I assume is is not as easy as you think to write the code that detects the perfect thresholds where animations are smooth all the time. I would like to assume that most KDE users are competent enough to at least google the answer on how to turn the animations off and desktop effects too (I mean somehow they installed a KDE distro finding a checkbox should be much easier).
  - michaelmrose 7y ago
    In theory but never overestimate human competence or underestimate the value of good defaults.
    - simion314 7y ago
      There will always be some people that will disagree with the defaults. plus metrics/telemetry is disliked by many users and is not built into the software. Knowing what settings are changed often could help, though it depends on project, I see many GNOME users changing defaults with adding a system tray extensions and nobody cares.
- viraptor 7y ago
  > Maybe as part of first run it ought to set a default useful based on current performance. Given how NVIDIA drivers are installed, the first run may not be representative. First run for each new xorg config maybe. But that could lead to random changes in behaviour as well on updates.
  - michaelmrose 7y ago
    Maybe login would be better. The setting could be x y or z or "set automatically based on performance" with the last being the default
hexo 7y ago
Please, how? i've spent a few days trying to stop those with no luck. I can turn off only some of them and even that gets ignored by some applications :( (like "start menu", or settings manager itself)

michaelmrose 7y ago

This highlights the difference between defaults and options. Options that would solve a users problems often go unused leaving the user with a negative opinion. Maybe as part of first run it ought to set a default useful based on current performance. It might also be worthwhile to think about how it degrades under pressure. Is it possible to notice frames dropped or delayed and degrade more gracefully.

simion314 7y ago
I think there are some blacklisted video cards. I assume is is not as easy as you think to write the code that detects the perfect thresholds where animations are smooth all the time. I would like to assume that most KDE users are competent enough to at least google the answer on how to turn the animations off and desktop effects too (I mean somehow they installed a KDE distro finding a checkbox should be much easier).
- michaelmrose 7y ago
  In theory but never overestimate human competence or underestimate the value of good defaults.
  - simion314 7y ago
    There will always be some people that will disagree with the defaults. plus metrics/telemetry is disliked by many users and is not built into the software. Knowing what settings are changed often could help, though it depends on project, I see many GNOME users changing defaults with adding a system tray extensions and nobody cares.
viraptor 7y ago
> Maybe as part of first run it ought to set a default useful based on current performance. Given how NVIDIA drivers are installed, the first run may not be representative. First run for each new xorg config maybe. But that could lead to random changes in behaviour as well on updates.
- michaelmrose 7y ago
  Maybe login would be better. The setting could be x y or z or "set automatically based on performance" with the last being the default

hexo 7y ago

Please, how? i've spent a few days trying to stop those with no luck. I can turn off only some of them and even that gets ignored by some applications :( (like "start menu", or settings manager itself)