An option to disable animation

[VictoriousRaptor]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

I notice that the only way to disable animation in Files seems to be disable animation in Windows settings (mentioned in #10509). This seems like unreasonable. Only Files is a bit slow on my two laptops, other animation of Windows is very smooth so disabling animation system-wise looks unnecessary.

Requirements

• An option in settings to disable animation effects.

Files Version

2.4.62.0 (store)

Windows Version

Windows 10 22H2 19045.2486

Comments

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[Josh65-2201]

Thanks for the feedback.
What is your reason for disabling animations? Files doesn't have many and doesn't affect performance.

[VictoriousRaptor]

Thanks for the feedback. What is your reason for disabling animations? Files doesn't have many and doesn't affect performance.

It's not about performance. I'm experience frame drop on some animations, like the animation when opening settings dialog.

[Josh65-2201]

Can you try updating to 2.4.66.0 and see if it's an issue still.

[yaira2]

@VictoriousRaptor v2.4.66 fixed the issue with framerates. If it's still an issue, please let us know and we'll investigate.

[VictoriousRaptor]

@yaira2 Still experience frame drops and lags on 2.4.66 (store version). I record a video to demonstrate the problem. The this video is 30fps so actually it's smoother but it still lags and some frame drops when click on settings tabs.

2023-04-22_09-39-58.mp4

[yaira2]

@VictoriousRaptor is this specific to the settings dialog?

[VictoriousRaptor]

@VictoriousRaptor is this specific to the settings dialog?

Yes I only noticed it in settings

[VictoriousRaptor]

v2.4.70 is much better. Basically it's fixed.

[yaira2]

Thanks for letting us know

[mwisnicki]

Another reason to disable animations is because someone might find them annoying or too slow (in terms of perception rather than fps)

[mwisnicki]

@yaira2 Still experience frame drops and lags on 2.4.66 (store version). I record a video to demonstrate the problem. The this video is 30fps so actually it's smoother but it still lags and some frame drops when click on settings tabs.

2023-04-22_09-39-58.mp4

I still see this choppiness in 3.1.1.0
I think powertoys is also C#/winui but it animates very smoothly

[yaira2]

@mwisnicki please report an issue on the WinUI repo.