#8000 NORM 8.2.0 (: Pulsing icon on activity launch significantly slows activity start-up

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#8000: Pulsing icon on activity launch significantly slows activity start-up
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   Reporter:  riccardo     |       Owner:  marco               
       Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                 
   Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
  Component:  sugar        |     Version:  not specified       
 Resolution:               |    Keywords:  performance, UI, r? 
Next_action:  review       |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:               |    Blocking:                      
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Comment(by tomeu):

 Replying to [comment:12 garycmartin]:
 >  Just re-timed activity launching with just riccardo's above patch (no
 other size/interval changes). The average launch savings is unfortunately
 only 0.8sec per activity, though the unpleasant mouse cursor flicker has
 now stopped :-)

 I think that's already pretty good, as this patch is not a hacky
 optimization but doing the right thing.

 > Note that the patch currently causes an initial icon edge cropping
 visual artefact as the icon appears, related to the zoom in animation
 effect.

 I think that's not really related to this patch but to something lower
 level. Can you check if it still happens without acceleration? (Add Option
 "NoAccel" "true" to the Device section in xorg.conf) There's already a
 ticket about this but cannot find it right now.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8000#comment:13>
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