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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Animated Menu's
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date:       2000-05-06 1:36:14
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On Fri, 5 May 2000, mosfet wrote:

> Dan Pilone wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 05 May 2000, Jono Bacon wrote:
> > > > That's about it.  Mosfet
> > > > & I briefly talked about theming the animation too
> > > > but for now it's not being
> > > > done.  -- Dan
> > >
> > > Any idea who will do it or when it will be done? Do
> > > you think it will make it into KDE2?
> > 
> >         (Ya got yer ears on mosfet?)  I'm willing to do it, but I need mosfet's
> > blessing on it.  The animated menus as is will be in KDE 2, but more
> > animations, etc, probably not, but I could be wrong.  Also, only highcolor
> > has the animated menus right now. -- Dan
> > 
> 
> I don't want to have several animated menu effects in the standard
> style. The standard style is run by default and we should be looking at
> trimming it down now. It doesn't help that after using animated menus I
> don't like them at all, but that is personal opinion ;-) Users request
> it enough to get it into KDE2, but I'm not convinced about the utility
> of it nearly enough to dedicate much code to it in the standard styles.

Physiology advises to have it (configurable). The human nervous system
can cope better with things that appear gently than all of a sudden.
It's less of a surprise, less stress. Sure, some people are accustomed
to things appearing all of a sudden (primarily comuter geeks who live
in cyperspace).

Therefore I advise to have animated menus in *all* styles (even if the
original ones we are simulating don't have them). Configurable.

Uwe
(who won't use them but knows a lot of people being much more at ease
by having them)

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