Now, I know you won’t want to do this… because you all just love animations.
… but I’m a grumpy old <expletive deleted> and animations are the last thing I want to see.
Lately, it seems, there are more animations creeping into Plasma 5 that can’t be controlled by either the ‘Desktop Effects’ or ‘Window Decoration’ settings.
For the moment adding this:
[Units]
longDuration=0
to “~/.config/plasmarc” will ‘disable’ the animations, well, actually it just makes them ‘instant’… but that’s good enough I suppose…
Argh!
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Bother! Prefixed with “Tumbleweed” as that’s what I’m using… but it could equally have been, 13.2, or Leap, or…
I think you’re missing something. There are no animations creeping up in Plasma5. If you turn off compositing, there will be no animations.
But … you may have KDE4 applications that might trigger animations. To control those, you need systemsettings, next to systemsettings5.
Erm… No… these animations are independent of the compositor
Examples: (First suspend compositing using shift alt F12)
“System Tray Settings” - select one of the options in the left panel, ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ for example; when the right hand panel changes it now has a “slide” animation effect.
“Calendar” - Navigate to a different month or year, when the calendar display changes it uses a ‘fade/zoom’ type animation.
Taking the calendar as an example, this is a section of the code that does the animation.
delegate: StackViewDelegate {
pushTransition: StackViewTransition {
NumberAnimation {
target: exitItem
duration: units.longDuration
property: "opacity"
from: 1
to: 0
}
NumberAnimation {
target: enterItem
duration: units.longDuration
property: "opacity"
from: 0
to: 1
}
NumberAnimation {
target: enterItem
duration: units.longDuration
property: "transformScale"
from: 1.5
to: 1
}
}
popTransition: StackViewTransition {
NumberAnimation {
target: exitItem
duration: units.longDuration
property: "opacity"
from: 1
to: 0
}
NumberAnimation {
target: exitItem
duration: units.longDuration
property: "transformScale"
// so no matter how much you scaled, it would still fly towards you
to: exitItem.transformScale * 1.5
}
NumberAnimation {
target: enterItem
duration: units.longDuration
property: "opacity"
from: 0
to: 1
}
}
}
I really think there should be a global setting for animation on/off, or it should follow the kwin animation setting. At the moment it seems there is no easy way to disable it.
