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Slideshow Experience is sloppy
Almost everytime I start a slideshow, I get visual glitches when the desktop fades out. For an unknown reason, the taskbar is in front of the fade out and only hides randomly, mostly after the fade out.
Experience on multi monitor sucks too: It fades out both screens but after slideshow starts, the unused one randomly shows the desktop again.
When started, slideshow animations, controls and the slideshow in general give a really sloppy feeling.
ALT+Tab or Windows Key and then selecting the photo gallery while in slideshow is also problematic (hangs badly).
When you exit the slideshow, it often takes some time to exit it and sometimes it freezes too. The fade in of the desktop is also not smooth.
Sidenote: Slideshow Experience has to be glitch free, since it is mostly used to show other people your images, if it doesn't work or look good, people will blame the OS for it - bad image for Vista.
Make the experience glitch free. Optimize for multimonitor support. Make the animations much smoother and add hover transitions to the slideshow controls. A progress bar would also make the experience better instead of the static loading graphics.
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Medium
Not fixed
Discussion (5 comments)
Changed impact from [Low] to [Medium].
DARN, got to it first. :) nice +1
Is really annoying to see the windows photo gallery disappearing before the slide show appears. I don't understand why they do that.
Its really annoying to see the windows photo gallery disappearing before the slide show appears. I don't understand why they do that.
GRiNSER wrote on June 19, 2008, 9:05am
Changed problem description.