linuxmint/Cinnamon — Issue #446: effects in expo and overview (brainstorming)
Author: M4he
Created: 2012-02-29 09:32:15+00:00
State: open

For low spec hardware like netbooks it is very useful that you can turn off window and workspace switching animations within the cinnamon settings.

I think it would be nice to toggle the animations within expo and overview as well because the zooming animation is quite heavy. However this would bring up some things that would need to be discussed first:

1. should the "Enable desktop effects"-switch in the settings be used for expo and overview as well or would it be better to introduce seperate switches?

2. if turning off animations, should expo and overview have no animation at all or should it just be reduced to a simple fade animation?

3. or should the user even be able to select each animation seperately like for the window effects (i.e. for expo enter animation choose between "Zoom" or "Fade") ?

I'm looking forward to hear your opinions on this!