Side Menu vertical - Githubissues

adamosborne83 commented 1 month ago

Skin section

Widgets

Current Behavior

Hey J,

Thanks for adding this in, but as you can see it jumps a bit.

Expected Behavior

Not to

Steps To Reproduce

Horizontal top bar. Vertical info bar

Screenshots and Additional Info

https://imgur.com/a/ck1peRv

Checklist

[X] I have made a separate issue for each bug that I am reporting.
[X] I have searched the issues and this bug has not been reported.
[X] I am using the most recent skin version.
[X] I have confirmed that this bug does not occur in the default skin.

jurialmunkey commented 1 month ago

There's not a lot that can be done about this. It is to do with how Kodi handles rendering with sync vs async loading of textures.

If the CPU/GPU can't serve sync textures fast enough to keep up with FPS then the GUI locks and you get animation jankiness (vs' async which renders regardless and so get smoother animations at the cost of textures popping-in).

It's particularly noticeable here because new window loading adds a lot of new controls to render, and there are a lot of complex animations affecting the entire screen (more parts of the screen to render = more overhead = more jankiness).

Future versions of Kodi will optimise this better with front-to-back rendering, reduced reliance on sync textures, and generally better options for more performant textures -- but from the skin side, there's not much that can be done to improve performance other than remove features (queue the crying).

I can attempt to mask it a bit better by increasing the delay where the animation switches from displaying library to info dialog (it might look like one window, but it is actually two windows here with some animation tricks to mask the seam) but I won't ever be able to "fix" it as it is a rendering issue.