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bniswe
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First, great work with the Aeon Nox skin, I like it a lot!
The animation when XBMC starts, when the menu "slides" into place is kind of slow and jerky.
I wish there was an option to either disable the animation or if it could be made much faster (near instantaneous).
I have OS X Lion, 2010 MacBook Pro with NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB and Eden beta 3. Aeon Nox 2.0.0 installed from within XBMC.
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bniswe
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Thanks, I have tried it with algorithmdirtyregions set to 1 and it makes no difference from what I can see.
Im not sure this is a performance problem.
Could be that the animation is set up to be displayed this way, and I just think its too slow moving.
Eye candy animations is great of course but they shouldnt slow down the UI.
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All animations are smooths as butter but this one in particular is quite jerky even on my system. I'm running XBMC on a 2011 Mac Mini, i5 processor and 8GB of ram.
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Depends on what you are running at startup. Like if you have update/clean library at stratup this will be hadr on your system. Also if you have several scripts running
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I dont run update/clean library on startup and have no scripts or plugins enabled except for the ones that comes with XBMC Eden beta 3
Like I said, It doesnt look like a performance problem. I think the animation is done in a odd looking way, and my feature request is this:
Can the animation be optionally disabled or modified to look less odd?
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It's intentionally slow to give time for the startup scripts to finish before the menu is loaded. It can be disabled of course, but would require editing xml's as I don't want to make a, imo, trivial option for this. Look in Inlcudes_Animations.xml for condition="Window.Previous(startup)" and condition="!Window.Previous(startup)" to see what needs to be edited. It's quite a few lines of code that needs to be altered.
Just to clarify, it doesn't look odd at all on my systems (otherwise I would have changed it already). It's just the same animation as normal, only slower.
