Hi,

Maemo seems to have some pretty nonsense animations/effects, which I guess are neither that visible nor really beautiful.

For example if you tap to open the status menu. The basic animation is to fly in from the top. But if you watch closely it also has some fade-in transparency effect, which reduces transparency until it is fully visible.

First off it's optically not that pretty to combine both the fly-in with the fade-in transparency effect (I think that either of them alone would look nice, but combined it sucks) . I'd prefer a simple fly-in where you could see the status menu flying in from top to bottom.
And the second thing is that it takes for sure a lot of cpu/gpu resources to animate the fade-in effect, which renders the N900 less snappy and of course uses more battery power because of this.

As there are lots of people here doing a great job with all these modified hildon-desktop versions with i.e. the desaturize patch, I'd hope there would be somebody tinkering a bit with this idea and see how it gets.

Thanks!

I'm all with you!
It would be very great to somehow tweak the effects or turn one off.

I thought all the effects are handled with the transitions.ini...

Maybe some devs are in a happy mood and look into it.
...Looking forward to a CustomFX app or plugin.

//EDIT:
would be great to be able to tweak the desktop switching parallax effect, too
btw, where is that handled? hard coded in hildon-desktop?

I've looked into the transitions.ini and for now I haven't found a way to turn off this fade-in effect through this file alone.

There are some interesting values though:
[popup]
duration_in=250
duration_out=250
...

These two values control the speed of which the status menu and other menus appear and disappear. Setting them to '0' make them appear/disappear instantly, so both the fade-in and the fly-in effects are gone. That's not really pretty though but you can change the setting to something in between, so at least it makes these animations faster and snappier. It's not that perfect though because you can also clearly see that the blurring of the background still is processing, while the status menu already fully appeared.

So I'd be really happy if there would be a way to just remove the fade-in effect completely, so the fly-in animation remains.

If you have the facebook widget on your desktop you can also see the fading of the background waiting for the last 3 steps of making it more blurry until the facebook app stopped sliding to the next post. so im guessing its allot more complex then you think.

I guess the background is replaced or stopped when something pops up. but is waiting until there is no movement of widgets on the background.