From kde-usability  Mon Nov 30 23:19:52 2009
From: Hugo Pereira Da Costa <hugo () oxygen-icons ! org>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:19:52 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: [KDE Usability] Oxygen animations configuration
Message-Id: <4B145318.7060208 () oxygen-icons ! org>
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Hi Leo,

Unfortunately I agree with all your points.

Now: the first option is the one and only you ask for. (it is "turn all 
on" or "all off").

The other seven options ... I added them while adding new animations. 
There is "some sort" of reasoning between them: tab transition for 
instance, is the only one that can possibly trigger repaints of large 
portions of the screen. All others are very local.

I won't try to motivate each of the options. I left it this way because 
of lack of time and poor usability skills (lack of time being: coding 
furiously, changing things often, and always postponing the moment where 
I should ask usability guys for help. My bad.).

I think On/Off is too drastic (due to the limitation above): glows and 
fade-in/fade-out, (the first four options) are harmless. Progressbars also.

Tabs: this can really make your system feel less responsible.

Labels: the thing is that it is quite a "sensible" animation, and might 
actually still be buggy (it is hard to test all applications on the 
market and people do scary things with labels).

So questions:
Could there be suggestions for something in-between the single-option, 
and the current state ?
Is it too late to have this fixed for kde4.4 ?



> Just read the update on 4.4 on polishlinux.  Looks cool, but one thing
> I need to mention:
>
> http://www.santyago.pl/data/santyago/images/kde44-1055000-animated-oxygen.jpg
>
> The Oxygen animations configuration dialog is completely insane.  8
> options and a dedicated tab for animation?
> What exactly is the use-case for people to configure animations on 8
> different GUI elements separately?
> Animations support in the default theme deserves exactly one option.  On or Off.
> If one particular animation is offensive to lots of people then it
> needs to be reworked.  Offering an option to disable them individually
> is not a solution, and this kind of thing is the reason that people
> get the impression KDE is complicated.
>
> Cheers,
> Leo
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