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

On Wednesday, 6 de January de 2010 00:37:19 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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
> 
ok :) remove from default that option  

dough i must say that i find this particular animation to do more good that 
bad but ok :D i know how to turn it on :D on my computer :) 

To be perfectly honest even the tab animation I find it more good than bad, 
meaning wen I measure what I lose and what I win as an experience, but i don't 
consider myself to be representative of all of the user base sooo :D

we are planing on making a test app for animations (bit in the style of the 
web icons tests) in the 4.4-4.5 cycle so we can better evaluate what is myth 
and what is reality wen it comes to this aspects... 
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