If you are referring to the shutdown screen fading,
it
might be a good
idea to merge the MMX code into TDE.
Regarding the fadeaway, long ago I wrote a bug report to provide a KControl option to
disable the fadeaway. The fadeaway is too slow on older hardware. To me the fadeaway adds
no meaningful value but I'm not asking for a complete ripping. :) Lots of people like
that kind of eye candy, but we should have an option to disable the effect for those who
don't.
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=258
Darrell