George Kadianakis:
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>> - 1/5 was confused that the loading spinner didn't spin and wondered
>> whether the application had crashed (the reason of this seems to be that
>> GNOME disables animations if it runs in a VM, I don't know how to fix this)
>>
>
> Wow that's ridiculous... It indeed seems like GNOME disables
> animations/spinners if the host does not support hardware acceleration... Your
> VM might be able to do hardware acceleration but I'm not sure if that will fix
> the issue.
Enabling hardware acceleration in the VirtualBox settings actually fixed
this! Thanks for the hint! (Why haven't I thought of this myself...)
> Some resources which you have probably also read:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204242
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732199
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680195
>
> I have not actually found the part of the GNOME codebase that does this
> functionality, but I can look more if you people think it can be useful.
Now that it works in my setup, I can continue the user tests without
this getting in the way, so I wouldn't spend more time on this.
Cheers
