Animated labels and progress bars in Oxygen considered harmful?

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Hugo Pereira Da Costa a écrit :
> Hi Aurelien,
> 
> I'd like to get others input on the QLabel thing (I'm surprised by "few
> seconds" though. In fact tooltip labels are animated to but it takes
> normally a couple of hundred milliseconds for the text to be updated in
> a smooth way there). Now well, yeah. We can dump it ... It does look
> good for some apps (e.g openbrain plasmoid), but creates quite some
> issues on others ... sad enough.

It is most likely milliseconds indeed. But still, if it looks cool in
some apps, then provide this feature as a separate widget so that these
apps can use it.

> I can comment on progressbars though. In fact the konqueror progress bar
> also shows the same weirdness when loading some pages: this is due to
> the fact that when you set a new value to a progressbar, the style
> cannot know whether this is a new "progress" (for the same process) or a
> "reset" when a new process to starts.
> 
> One way around that I can think of is to only animate progress bar if
> you move forward (increasing progress), and respond instantly if you
> move backward. That would fix the weirdness you mention at least. But it
> might be too "specialized" (meaning: I'm sure there must be at least one
> application on the market that uses progressbars backwards. From 100 to
> 0) ...
> What do you think ?

It sounds like a good idea. The worse which can happen with he
application going from 100 to 0 is a progress bar which is not animated.
Nothing wrong with that.

Aurélien