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. >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
