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

Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 de January de 2010 17:07:44 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> 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

That seems dubious. When dealing with computers, changes usually take 
1/60th of a second (or less) to complete. Why slow them down?

When I turn on a light, it takes considerably less time to change state. 
I have yet to encounter a light bulb that smoothly transitions from off 
to on. And unless capacitors are involved (e.g. LED's associated with 
AC->DC convertors, e.g. laptop power supplies), most lights go from on 
to off in an imperceptibly short time.

Anyway, even the existing label animations are drawing my attention more 
than not having the animation. Possibly because change is occurring over 
a longer period of time.

> Matthew the oxygen animations are extremely subtle and not on your face,

You obviously do not use ksysguard. The label animations in conjunction 
with ksysguard are *seriously* obnoxious. In /general/, I find them 
(label animations) more distracting than no animation.

Maybe I'm more sensitive than you, or something... I tried turning 
animations back on, and IMO they're *all* annoying, at least enough so 
that I turned them back off right away. (50 ms for labels is less 
obnoxious though. @Hugo, thanks for that much at least.)

I still think animations on by default is bad usability. They are not 
making anything easier to use - they have no demonstrable usability 
advantage that I know of. They /can/ be annoying, which is bad for 
usability. The only "advantage" is that they look pretty, but that 
doesn't make anything more usable. ("Look pretty" is great when there 
isn't a down side... but there is, here.)

@Hugo: the animation is broken when the label changes size/position. 
(Try it with a right-aligned label, for example.)

(/me wonders about taking this thread to -usability...)

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Matthew
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