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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: bouncing icon on app start
From:       "Jos Poortvliet" <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-09 12:42:50
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0901090442x233142bbh93d7f3b03193478b () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Milan Krivda <swalko12@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 07:42:09 Nick Shaforostoff wrote:
>> I believe bouncing icon on app start annoys people, so I propose to
>> change this setting to blinking icon be default, or disable it
>> completely.
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> +1 I dislike bouncing cursor too.

I remember some while ago when a big rolout of FOSS desktops was done
in Brittain. They initially choose Gnome, but in the end switched to
KDE. The major reason turned out to be... the bouncing cursur. They
considered it a huge usability advantage and they couldn't get it in
Gnome.

I personally fully agree. How often do you see win users click a
quickstart icon, then again because they had no feedback, and end up
with two apps (or worse, a error message)? AND you see ppl click,
wait, nothing happens, darn, wrong click. Another wasted 20+ seconds
of their life... I'm no usability expert but I doubt disabling
feedback would be a smart move.


However, we might be able to find a better solution to provide
feedback to the user. One way would be to save a screenshot of each
app just before closing, and using that to provide immediate feedback:
use a kwin animation to scale it in and keep it grey while the app
starts or something. would be sexy, unique and effective. Would need
some nutcrack to write it ;-)
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