[PATCH] extend KTreeWidgetSearchLine with flash possibility

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 06 April 2007, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote about 'Re: 
[PATCH] extend KTreeWidgetSearchLine with flash possibility':
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 21:17, Tom Albers wrote:
> > For Mailody I wanted to make clear that a quick search was active when
> > switching folders[1]. This is done by flashing the lineedit for a
> > certain time[2].
>
> The usability people adviced KMail (long ago) to remove the search when
> switching folders. Which is a strategy I personally agree with.

Agreed.

> Flashing a gui is considered a bad idea by a lot of people (remember the
> html tag blink?, and the outcry whenever someone used it?).

Yeah, but that never stopped, and affected the forground that you needed to 
read; not the background or decorations.

> I'd hate to see bad usability ideas go into kdelibs.

Agreed, and I'm not usability expert, so I'll deffer to them on what's good 
and bad, but I find some blinking to be quite useful.  For example, 
blinking a window or taskbar element that requested focus but hasn't 
received it.

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