Animated labels and progress bars in Oxygen considered harmful?

[Hugo Pereira Da Costa]

On 12/02/2009 09:27 AM, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote:
>> On 12/02/2009 06:48 AM, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009 09:43:57 schrieb Aurélien Gâteau:
>>>> The widget is not changed behind
>>>> the developer back.
>>> I think the important point is not that this was changed behind the
>>> developer's back,
>>
>> In fact thinking about it: isn't the whole idea of QStyle/KStyle to 
>> change widgets behind the developer's back ? When we (Nuno or I) 
>> change the tab shape, or the main window background gradients, or the 
>> checkmark in radio buttons, we do all that behind dev's back don't we ?
>> So now there is a limit to what a style can and cannot change, and I 
>> don't know where it is. I've read reports that bespin did pass the 
>> limit (e.g. by adding specific hacks for dedicated applications), and 
>> oxygen might well have passed it with e.g. qlabel animations. If this 
>> is the case, well, fine, I can remove the animation. But again, this 
>> is not obvious to me where the limit is and this might need further 
>> discussion (or specification).
>
> I think the limit can be stated like this: a style should not have 
> side effects on existing code. For example if I write this:
>
> label->setText("Foo");
> label->adjustSize();
> QSize size = label->size();
>
> Then I expect 'size' to contain the size needed by 'label' to display 
> "Foo", not the size needed to display the previous content.
mmm. That's what it is now (and if the old text is displayed during the 
animation, it is truncated).
Or do I get it wrong ?

>
> Aurélien