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

On Tuesday, 5 de January de 2010 20:43:42 Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Right now the label transition is 150 msec long.
> I can make it shorter (100 msec or even 50 msec).
> In fact you (Matthew, Nuno) can test by adding:
> 
> LabelTransitionsDuration=50
> 
> in ~/.kde4/share/config/oxygenrc
> 
> (or ~/.kde/...)
> 
> under the [Style] section.
> 
> 
> Nuno: could you try ksysguard with these animations ? Look at the
> "system load" tab, containing graphs.

OO i just love the animation im totally biased i even have the time set to 
twice a s long :D I dont think it make the application look less responsive to 
me it just looks more polished, specially because in this case the numbers 
really do jump and with the animation it looks as they transition from A to B 
and not jump, witch i gees is even more accurate. 

> Matthew: I do agree that the label animation in this case is somewhat
> overkill/annoying, because the labels are updated every seconds,
> although I don't find it intrusive enough to alter the user experience
> (but that's only my opinion). Now I also agree with Nuno that IMO this
> is not the majority of cases and that in many cases the animation does
> look/feel good. In enough cases in fact so that I would rather keep the
> animation ON by default.
> 
> On your suggestion to turn off the animation, since we're in string
> freeze, I can't add an option to disable this animation only. So that
> turning it off means basically turning it off permanently for kde4.4 ...
> (unless people edit their oxygenrc file manually, which is not an option).
> 
> On your suggestion to turn it off except when apps ask for it, this
> requires either application changes (which are unlikely to happen), or
> some sort of exception handling (similar to what we have in the window
> decoration), which won't happen either for kde4.4 (and is likely not
> desirable).
> 
> So the only question I see today is: do we or do we not want to have
> label animations (at all) in kde4.4.
> Alternatively: keep the situation as it is now, and if people are
> annoyed with animations, they can turn them _all_ off in oxygen
> configuration.
> Or are you suggesting to turn them _all_ off by default.
> 
> I don't think we have any other option available at that stage.
> (kde4.5 is another story).
> 

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