Animated labels and progress bars in Oxygen considered harmful?

[Hugo Pereira Da Costa]

On 12/02/2009 03:41 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 02.12.09 11:09:42, Marco Martin wrote:
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>> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
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>>> The "Animated progress bars" option is also probably problematic as I
>>> guess it is the cause of the strange behavior of the "Get Hot New Stuff"
>>> dialog (if you click "Install" on several items in a short while, the
>>> progress bar goes back and forth).
>>>        
>> i see nothing wrong with that, it looks more natural to me
>>      
>    
Hi Andreas,
Your concern is legitimate. The tab transition is the only one 
susceptible of triggering large repaints of the screen. Which is why it 
has a dedicated turn on/off option in oxygen config, which is, as far as 
I know, off by default. All other transitions are on by default ...
> Don't want to start a flamewar, but the animation on switching tabs is
> just too much IMHO. With oxygen, when I switch from one tab to another I
> actually need to wait for the animation to finish before I can properly use
> the content of the new tab. Thats just not right. Luckily not all styles
> want to be fancy, some are there for everyday work ;P
>
> Andreas
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