New class KWidgetBlendAnimation

[Allen Winter]

On Sunday 03 February 2008 08:51:26 Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Sunday 03 February 2008, Allen Winter wrote:
> > No objections, since:
> > 1) you already committed it into phonon/kcm
> > 2) nobody has objected
> > 3) Urs already likes it
> > 4) the dox look complete
> > 5) there are no Krazy issues (but phonon does have a few)
> >
> > Monday (tomorrow) would be a good time to move it.
>
> Thanks Allen for following up on this!
>
> One question might remain though: autotests. If anybody has a good idea
> what to do in that test let me know. Else I'll just do a simple
> QWidget *w = new QWidget;
> KWidgetBlendAnimation *a = new KWidgetBlendAnimation(w);
> a->start();
>
> testcase.

Better than nothing.

>
> Oh, and please take a few moments to think about the name of this class. I
> don't like it.
> Perhaps it would be better to have "fade" instead of "blend" in the name?
> - KFadeWidgetUpdate
> - KAnimateWidgetChange
> - KFadeAnimation
> - ...

I do like "fade" better than "blend".
KFadeAnimateWidget??

>
> > You know.. it would be really cool if you could make a movie of this
> > widget in action and somehow add it to the apidox.
>
> I'll try. But screencaptures of effects often look a lot worse than in
> reality. But if the quality is acceptable I'll include it. Hmm, adding it
> to the apidox means commiting the movie to kdelibs. Do we want that?

No.
We could host the movie on the apidox.kde.org machine though.

-Allen