From kde-usability Mon Nov 30 23:37:16 2009 From: Leo Spalteholz Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:37:16 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: [KDE Usability] Oxygen animations configuration Message-Id: <7c98fd570911301537v3b188686t63b071d16f07a8aa () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=125962429430510 On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Markus wrote: > >> The Oxygen animations configuration dialog is completely insane. > > 1.) Use nicer language please. Sorry. Knee jerk reactions are bad, hope I didn't offend anyone. > 2.) I bet that this is not the final design. Would be nice. > > 3.) I followed parts of the conversation regarding the animation > implementation. There was much support for finer grained config than only > "switch everything on/off". Some (such as myself) even suggested slide bars to > even configure the animation speed. :-) I just re-read that discussion and didn't see any support for increased configuration (the thread "animations" in oxygen in kde-devel) aside from your post advocating sliders. Anyway, just supporting something is not enough when it has definite negative aspects (configuration clutter and code complexity being the two most important). There has to be a valid use case. Why would anyone need to adjust the animation times? If the default is too slow, then the default needs to be faster. Why would someone want to disable only one specific type of animation? Is it because it's annoyingly slow? Then it needs to be faster. Is it because their hardware is too slow? Then maybe the animation is too heavy, and if we can't detect that and fix it automatically it should never be in the default theme. Is it because the animation is excessively gaudy? Again, that shouldn't be in the default theme. I'm not saying that there isn't a valid use case for more fine grained control rather than on/off, but I can't think of anything, and I haven't found any good reasoning on the topic. Adding an option is a serious decision. Adding 8 needs to have some damn good reasons to back it up. Leo _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability