Re: Frist Impressions of GNOME 3's Zoom Feature

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello again!

I installed Ubuntu on may laptop using Wubi within Windows XP, and I was 
just testing Orca and GNOME 3 a few moments ago. I decided that I should 
try out the Zoom feature as well to see if the lag which I mentioned in 
previous e-mails existed there as well. I am glad to say that it did not 
exist. I will have to do some more testing on my desktop machine to see 
if the lag was caused by Shell extensions or by the graphics card. I 
just want to reiterate how amazed I am with how things work. The 
magnifier ran very smoothly on my laptop, equal to if not better than 
the Compiz eZoom plugin did. I only used Compiz for magnification and 
the negative inverse feature, and I am finding that I am not missing it 
as much as I did when I first started out.

Thanks for all of the help which was provided concerning this issue.

Take care.

On 12/12/2011 7:44 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 12 December 2011 19:52, Robert Cole<rkcole72984 gmail com>  wrote:
> > Today I finally had some time to test out a live USB Linux Mint 12 system. I
> > am sure that this is probably not a native setting in GNOME 3 by default,
> > but an extension called noa11y was enabled by default. Once I turned this
> > off I set the keyboard shortcuts for the magnifier and gave it a run. I
> > found it to be very smooth in a live environment. With or without it, GNOME
> > 3 was very quick and responsive, except for one area thus far while the
> > magnifier is running.
> >
> > When I open up the Activities Overview (I am trying to get the proper terms
> > for different elements down :) ) and click on the Applications tab, the
> > magnifier gets very jumpy. It does not stop functioning,but it has a big lag
> > when panning, and I am somewhat certain that this is probably due to the big
> > number of application icons which are presented. When I select a category,
> > such as Internet, the magnifier pans smoothly again. I am not saying this to
> > complain as I am very happy with how well things just worked, and I am sure
> > that this si something which will factor itself out in time.
> Did the lag happen every time you opened the Activities Overview or
> just the first time? Even in GNOME 2, the first time the menu is
> displayed seems to take a few seconds in many cases.
>
> Also, it might be worth trying after you've disabled all the GNOME
> Shell extensions (and reloaded GNOME Shell) to make sure it's actually
> a GNOME Shell problem.
>
> Jeremy
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