GNOME Shell's Icon Grid Could See Almost Double The Performance

[Templar82]

Sometimes I an impressed Gnome ever worked at all.
The amount of performance things fixed in the last ~12 has been phenomenal.

[Anvil]

waits for Gnome4 Gnomes-Hell3 is just as buggy as GTK3 is

[Britoid]

linux? sure, Gnome JS shell on other hand... it can't even run basic animations at 60 FPS lol

Animations in GNOME Shell are being handled in C.

[timrichardson]

I wonder if this will be backported to Ubuntu LTS 20.04

[microcode]

Is it really that expensive to alpha blend some textures? Is there a lot more that could be retained that isn't?

[tildearrow]

240Hz All the big distributors looked at this and came to the conclusion that resources were better spent on GNOME. It’s that simple.

Two big distributors that don't agree with this:
- Arch Linux
- openSUSE

[tildearrow]

linux? sure, Gnome JS shell on other hand... it can't even run basic animations at 60 FPS lol

In the meanwhile, some animations in the KDE UI still run at 30fps, regardless of your machine (like System Settings infoboxes). Supposedly because non-Quick Qt is rendered in software... in 2020. :<

[tildearrow]

The grid is so useless that it would be better removing it completely...

What about allow the user to select between a grid and a normal menu?

This way we target both desktop and tablet users.

[tildearrow]

Vistaus GNOME got many thousands of issues. Less than half is even reported or verified. Why would anyone question that?

Yeah, but this is the first time you admitted so by yourself, without anyone telling you.
When you talk about the other desktop, you say they're so flawed.

[Danielsan]

What about allow the user to select between a grid and a normal menu?

This way we target both desktop and tablet users.

I know you tried to be constructive, but:

1. How many tablets with preinstalled GNOME are available to justify the grid?
2. How many tablets were available ten years ago to justify the grid?
3. How many tablets are available to install a distribution with GNOME considering that even on desktop is hard to get GNOME working because it requires a proper opengl GPU driver.
4. When did having a menu stop to be useful on a tablet UI? The Kindle Fire UI does have a hierarchy that resembles a menu.

Based on the GNOME3 attitude the grid should be ditched since the moment there aren't enough users or devices that requires it, or at least this has been the justification they have been using when started to remove functionalities from the GNOME 3 Desktop Environment.