The mac build does something like this: the background color of all
the windows is actually magenta, which makes it very obvious when
something's not getting painted or the process isn't responding to
events.

--Amanda


2009/5/20 Linus Upson <[email protected]>:
> I think it would be great if I could turn on a pref in release builds that
> would show me jank. I'd also like to see all of the UI elements turn crazy
> colors if we fail to service the event queue in less than 200ms.
> Linus
>
> 2009/5/19 James Hawkins <[email protected]>
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:20 PM, William Chan (陈智昌)
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:12 PM, James Hawkins <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Evan Stade <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>> Are we sure we need this functionality?  I understand the intention
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> seeing when we're not drawing fast enough, but I'm seeing the green
>> >>>> background all the time (on a fast machine), which leads me to
>> >>>> believe
>> >>>> that the debugging aid is a red herring.
>> >>>
>> >>> Yea, you should see it all the time. We'll never be able to fix that.
>> >>> But how much of it you see is a good measure of jank.
>> >>>
>> >>> If enough people hate it, we can remove it (and only enable when we
>> >>> care to look at jank).
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> We should leave page load/rendering time to measurements from the
>> >> tests.  This should be something that a developer working on jankiness
>> >> could enable himself.  It's rather distracting to the developers who
>> >> don't need to look into jankiness, but do need to run debug builds
>> >> regularly.
>> >
>> > I personally like seeing the green background, since I do like seeing
>> > how much jank there is.  It doesn't bother me at all.  That said, I
>> > can see how it'd annoy some people.  If most people dislike it, then I
>> > think we should just make it the same as the release behavior (use a
>> > white background), but I think it'd be nice to have a command line
>> > flag or a preference or something so I can run with a green or
>> > whatever background to aid in debugging jankiness.
>> >
>>
>> Sure, I think a flag or pref would be ideal.
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>

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