[sugar] frame gets in the way when alt-tabbing

[Erik Garrison]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:28:33PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > So perhaps the best thing to do is to add a configuration option to
> > allow the user to enable or disable this behavior?
> >
> > Would it be better if the frame was quickly displayed instead of sliding
> > into view?  Maybe generally we need a configuration option to turn on
> > and off fancy animations to improve system responsiveness?
> 
> Perhaps in the short term a boolean (exposed or not...I'd lean toward
> not) would suit.  The big isue is lack of composition support.  The
> Frame currently "slides in" about 1/2 as fast as I'd like it to, and
> choppily at that.  With composition we could get smooth motion and
> also speed it up significantly. (The only reason it's so slow now, I
> believe, is because without composition we can't draw frames fast
> enough to convey the motion unless we increase the length of the
> reveal.)

Both Joyride and 8.2 streams have composition enabled by default.

You can test composition by running "xcompmgr -d :0.0" in the terminal.

Erik