GNOME's Magnifier Will Now Avoid Double Painting The Desktop

[Charlie68]

Because Daniel Van Vugt is the developer who pushed (with code) the most to improve the performance of GNOME Shell? I don't like Canonical politics, but we have to recognize if GNOME Shell is fixing its problems with performance is mainly thanks to Canonical and specially Daniel Van Vugt.

It seems like a nonsense explanation to me, if Daniel Van Vugt is optimizing the performance of Gnome Shell it is because he found some code already written by someone else. Each contribution is an improvement, whether it be for functionality, performance or otherwise, if there were no other developers, Daniel Van Vugt optimized a fife.

[Alexmitter]

Because Daniel Van Vugt is the developer who pushed (with code) the most to improve the performance of GNOME Shell? I don't like Canonical politics, but we have to recognize if GNOME Shell is fixing its problems with performance is mainly thanks to Canonical and specially Daniel Van Vugt.

There is not just Daniel in terms of Fixing Mutter and the Shell in that ground breaking fashion.
Though his patches include the most "drama", in terms they are often a bit questionable but always very interesting on a technical level and that creates a lot of discussion in the MR comments.

[david-nk]

I miss the times where you could just zoom in on the area of the mouse cursor with Super+Mouse Wheel in compiz.
It is shameful how much the desktop experience has regressed in the last 10 years, both in terms of functionality and performance.
This magnifier tool seems decent enough, but it's not the same.

[royce]

GNOME's performance was atrocious before Canonical and Daniel barged in 4 years ago. They aren't the only ones doing that type of work today, but they certainly lit a fire under the rest of GNOME devs. That and the fact suddenly GNOME was the default desktop on the most popular linux distribution, attracting millions of new users from one day to another.

[ColdDistance]

I am glad that a Canonical developer contributes, what I don't understand is why he is always given all this visibility, while dozens of other developers remain in the shadows, while always doing the bulk of the work. This is what I generally call injustice.

Because Daniel Van Vugt is the developer who pushed (with code) the most to improve the performance of GNOME Shell? I don't like Canonical politics, but we have to recognize if GNOME Shell is fixing its problems with performance is mainly thanks to Canonical and specially Daniel Van Vugt.

[kpedersen]

I am glad that a Canonical developer contributes, what I don't understand is why he is always given all this visibility, while dozens of other developers remain in the shadows, while always doing the bulk of the work. This is what I generally call injustice.

True, I imagine it is because all the individual contributors writing and improving Linux are too busy writing code, doing the actual work and don't have an entire PR team to advertise them.

They also have nothing to gain from it. No ulterior business driven motive unlike many of these corporate entities.

[Charlie68]

I am glad that a Canonical developer contributes, what I don't understand is why he is always given all this visibility, while dozens of other developers remain in the shadows, while always doing the bulk of the work. This is what I generally call injustice.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME's Magnifier Will Now Avoid Double Painting The Desktop

Canonical's Daniel Van Vugt continues working on some important performance fixes for the GNOME desktop...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Magnifier-Double-Paint