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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Support for animated icons (on mouseover)
From:       Christoph Cullmann <crossfire () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2002-01-17 20:52:01
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 19:13, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:06:20PM +0100, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > > The two patches attached provide support for animations on mouseover,
> > > as requested by our beloved artist (aka tackat ;)
> >
> > Thank you, thank you, thank you  ...
> > anyone interested in autographs?
> > No? hm ...
>
> Hihi :)
;)

>
> > > The main question is: given the current feature freeze, is it ok to
> > > commit this nonetheless ?
> >
> > I would go for a clear "YES".
>
> Me too, in the real world where people are using computers because they
> have to this kind of stuff is just the thing that makes KDE better.
>
> I also believe that in time lots of things can be done in animations that
> just make some things clearer. Icons have their limitations because of the
> similarity of concepts, with animation you can put this on a whole new
> level gaining better usability.
> Think about changing the icon of a playing ogg/mp3 when you hover your
> mouse over it... (And I am not the most creative of people!)
>
> Therefor this should certainly be defaulted on for the same reasons the
> icons on buttons should be defaulted to on; it makes for a better user
> interface.
Yes, sounds like a very good idea. Such icons will help in many places to make 
clearer which action is performed or will be performed.

Just an question: will such features be possible for icons in toolbars, too ?

>
> > > The effect looks nice - although this is pure eye-candy, no doubt
> > > there. Whether it will need to be made configurable or not.... I say
> > > yes, Tackat says no, we'll see what users (or the testers of this
> > > patch) say ;)
> >
> > I didn't say "no". I said: lets make it configurable as soon as the users
> > actually do ask for it.
>
> Naturally I have no problem with configuring this to be disabled when the
> user finds it too slow. But c'mon how many old machines are out there that
> can't run this!
> So again I agree with tackat!

cu
Christoph

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