Re: [kde-artists] please turn off label animations...

On Tuesday, 5 de January de 2010 17:07:44 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Diego Moya wrote:
> >  From the description of the problem you have with the label animation,
> > it seems what you need is the "One-second Spotlight" pattern instead
> > of the "Fade-in Transition". See URLs below for descriptions:
> > http://ajaxpatterns.org/One-Second_Spotlight
> > http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/richinteraction/transition/fadein.ht
> >ml
> >
> >> This /does/ alter the user interaction experience, by delaying the
> >> display of information.
> >
> > The Fade-in does indeed delay the display of information, whereas the
> > Spotlight does not. It changes the value instantly and the animation
> > is a bright background, quickly fading out to the original color. This
> > accomplishes the desired effect of bringing attention to the value
> > change, is not as intrusive as the gradual fade-in, and is a common
> > idiom used in several popular webpages.
> >
> > Would this address your concerns?
> 
> I guess, but IMO that's worse. The whole point is to *not* be annoying.
> This sounds like it would be annoying in a different way.
> 
> The point of the oxygen animation is actually to reduce the
> obtrusiveness (it's arguable whether that works), so doing something
> that specifically draws /more/ attention is the opposite of what is
> intended. It's not (typically) necessary to draw attention to the
> changed label; if that is needed, it should certainly be done opt-in by
> the app.

yes the idea is not to draw attention to it rather to prevent the instant 
change that does not our in real life in real life nothing is instantaneous 
but rather transitory  
> 
> Perhaps a summary of the (relevant part of the) video is in order.
> Basically, in a user interface, two things can go wrong; it can be
> boring, and it can be annoying. Note that in this context, "boring" does
> NOT mean precisely the opposite of flashy; "needlessly repetitive" would
> be better. In that sense, animations are only needed if they make the
> interface LESS annoying. If they make it MORE annoying, they are failing
> and should be disabled/removed.

Matthew the oxygen animations are extremely subtle and not on your face, 
mostly fade in and fade out glows and transitions, the particular animation we 
are talking about makes IMO certain aspect of the UI look much more polished 
as the "flickering" is attenuated , i don't think that most cases it causes a 
usability problem and think that we can come up with some solution for 
specific problems,

I'm not saying I don't agree with you, i see your point and even agree  that 
in some specific cases it might be annoying, but i fell the bonus overlaps the 
negative points, and its worth trying to solve those negative points one by 
one.  

suggestion make the speed of this animation faster so its even less 
obstructive but keeps a bit of the transitory effect. 


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