Re: [kde-artists] oxygen style and kwin client, svn external

On 01/04/2010 04:32 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On January 4, 2010, Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote:
>    
>>> what can happen is that it uses more cpu to achieve an animation since it
>>> may generates more frames than you strictly want (if the animation frame
>>> generation is quick), but the timespan itself should be no different. if
>>> anything, the animation should be smoother but more cpu intensive.
>>>        
>> well, that's the surprising part. It seems (to me) that the "tab"
>> transitions take more time (and is smoother) with QPropertyAnimation
>> than with QTimeLine,
>>      
> i wonder if it isn't just that there are more frames and therefore more visual
> transitions which then make it _feel_ slower (due to more happening visually).
> this could be completely psychological (so much is with animations ;). it may
> be that with QPropertyAnimation it is possible to shorten the duration of the
> animation for the same degree of quality/effect?
>    
could be.
I actually did shorten the time alocated to the tab transition from 250 
to 150msec after the change to kinetic. (great minds blah blah blah).

>    
>>> uses a shared timer. in the case of many animations running
>>> simultaneously, having a shared timer is usually better for
>>> coordination, wakeups, etc.
>>>        
>> True.
>>
>>      
>>>> I'm confident I can commit both before the branching tomorrow (since
>>>> this was the original plan).
>>>>          
>>> great; i've already got the oxygen style done, so i'll commit that then.
>>>        
>> It's all committed already.
>>      
> ah; that was fast. :)
>
> (as an aside: i find it's nice to let people commit their own work. it does a
> number of things: it gives them that "huzzah!" moment when the commit goes in
> as a nice reward, it prevents them ending up with conflicts in their checkout
> when you commit it for them and if there are things that need to be fixed
> first you can communicate it to them and have them fix it before committing.
> this way they learn what you want in your code. it's not a big deal in this
> case, but even if it does mean one has to wait some extra time for the other
> person to commit their patch, it's usually a good idea for community / team
> building. :)
>
> as for the shared library thing, i'm happy to help you with that as soon as
> 4.5 opens up so that we can get rid of the svn extern. i don't even mind doing
> the entire bit of work needed to make it happen. just let me know :)
>
>    
>> Right now I'm trying to address some of the
>> obvious bugs that have been reported.
>> (notably that Qt apps do not used a different text color for disabled
>> widgets, while kde apps do)
>>      
> great :) the oxygen theme set is coming along really nicely!
>
>    

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