From kde-devel  Sun Oct 25 03:38:37 2009
From: John Tapsell <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:38:37 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: "animations" in oxygen style
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2009/10/24 Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuzkde@gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> On Saturday 24 October 2009 05:33:21 John Tapsell wrote:
>> I get your point, but disagree.  I think the only way to settle it
>> really is to sit users down and ask them which they prefer.  I really
>> expect that users will feel 200ms is too slow.
>>
>> :)
> John, did you actually try the nitrogen style that was mentioned at the start
> of the thread? Does it really feel slow for you?
>
> I tried it and find it perfectly ok and nice. I'm just interested to know are
> you basing your replies on real experience with this style or on theory? :)
>
> Not saying theory is bad, but sometimes it leads to rather long threads, which
> in the end turn to do nothing practical ;)

I haven't tried it :-D

But, for example, when you press alt-tab to switch applications, the
window switcher animates between which window in the list is
highlighted.  I feel that it's now a lot 'heavier'.  That's a concrete
example of an animation that I feel is way too slow.

John
 
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