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

> On January 5, 2010, you wrote:
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>> 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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As a matter of fact, I do find annoying (with or without animation) that 
kmail (and thunderbird) updates the new mail window title for every 
single character I type.
In my opinion, it should be buffered, and updated if I don't type a new 
character in say 1/2 second (or even 1 second). If it were so, the 
current animation would work just right.
But hell. Just my opinion.

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