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

On January 5, 2010, you wrote:
> So are you suggesting that we disable it permanently ?

not permanently; just for 4.4.0. i think we should keep the actual code there 
and work on making this really good for a future release. there must be 
solutions for the remaining corner cases, we just need to look hard enough :)

> konqueror), though I agree there is room for improvement. Can't this
> wait for kde4.5 ? Or for a backported bug-fix when someone files a bug ?

my concern is that the negative results are noticeable in enough easy-to-
trigger situations that people will dismiss this feature and view the rest of 
oxygen's progress in 4.4 in a negative light due to it. that would be 
unfortunate at this point as the other animations are all rather great (imho, 
anyways :) and the style and window deco are looking terrific these days.

we didn't have these label transitions before, so it's not a regression to 
ship without them now. nothing is fundamentally broken by not having the label 
animations, either. 

so it's not a step backwards (relative to past 4.x releases) to skip the label 
transition in 4.4.x. including this particular animation in its current state 
would, i feel, pose a risk to the acceptance of all the animations. those 
animation will, unfortunately, not be accepted with open arms by some people 
who are anti-animation or even just anti-whatever-cool-that-KDE-does for no 
particularly good reason; let's not give them ammunition ;)

there are a number of other really nice anims in oxygen for 4.4 that i think 
everyone will love so it's not like removing the label animation will ruin all 
of your fine efforts, and when the label animation is in good working order we 
can either backport the fixes as a 4.4.x update or include it in 4.5.0 and it 
will be perceived as an upgrade to the user.

i'm just trying to help minimize the risk to oxygen's continued acceptance and 
maximize the user's experience. we're releasing 4.4, not 4.0, so we need to be 
a bit more conservative i think in what we unleash here, and the style/window 
deco influence the usability of every single app.

just my 0.02

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