[PATCH] Animations enable/disable system wide

[Richard Hartmann]

On Feb 16, 2008 2:20 PM, Robert Knight <robertknight at gmail.com> wrote:


> This is about performance, "need high contrast" is an accessibility
> issue.  "wants to save battery" is a dynamic state which is already
> available though Solid.

Not quite, Aaron brought up gradients, which could also reach into this.
I see what you mean, though. Could it make sense to try an unify those
things?


> That makes it more complicated all of a sudden.  Right now I'd suggest
> keeping it simple and getting it working where it matters, eg. as per
> Aaron's pre-defined list above.

Well, the only difference is that with the one, you have ~4 states you need
to hard-code against, different applications interpreting the states
differently.
If things went more along your KDE3-style slider suggestion, one would
need more fine-grained states, anyway. Those could then be used as basis
for super-sets. Implementing the background en detail and just offering
basic options to the end-user would make the most sense to me if time is
an issue. As whatever is decided upon now will stay around for KDE4's
full life-span, the groundwork should be done right.


Richard