Patch disabling animation in Gallery, Contacts covers

General
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Has anyone worked on a patch to disable cover animations in Gallery and/or Contacts app?

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Gallery:
if you want that the pictures on the cover stay the same without shuffling, try this:

unified_diff.patch:

--- original/usr/share/jolla-gallery/pages/GalleryCover.qml     2025-10-08 13:00:16.529856900 +0200
+++ patched/usr/share/jolla-gallery/pages/GalleryCover.qml      2025-10-08 13:02:03.498365300 +0200
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
     onStatusChanged: {
         if (status == Cover.Active && shuffleWhenActive) {
             shuffleWhenActive = false
-            shuffleTimer.start()
-            shuffleDelayTimer.start()
+            //shuffleTimer.start()
+            //shuffleDelayTimer.start()
         }
     }

or should they change but without animation?

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Thanks for direct solution. I was willing to patch myself, just did not want to duplicate the effort.

And yes, I do not want the images / avatars to animate since there is no functional value in it. It just unnecessarily drags user attention towards a device. It is a slick eye candy, but causes message fatigue.

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above patch keeps the cover the same until you take a new picture then cover gets updated and shows new picture, but stays the same then

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Cool, once again thank you.

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regarding contact cover, after a quick look, there is a qml which specifies if SimpleCover or AnimatedCover should be used (animated if favorites > 2), you could try setting always to simple (but maybe looks ugly then if favorites > 2, but worth a try). or check AnimatingCover.qml and disable shuffle and timer, maybe thats already sufficent to stop animation

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Please excuse this silly question, but my Gallery app never did shuffle anything but always showed the photos sorted by date/reverse, will say last photo first.

Also I couldn’t find anything in the app settings regarding shuffled preview.

SFOS 5.0.0.68 / Xperia 10.
Did I miss an update?

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Well, this is there since Jolla 1 device days. The cover of minimized Gallery or Contacts animates images or avatars in case of Contacts.

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Ah the minimized view! OK, got it. Thanks @smyru !