Comments on cool plasmoid popup animations

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Jud Craft wrote:
> Hello again!  I really like the way the plasmoid utility popups do
> that quick gliding-fade-in-and-out when you hover on a plasmoid.
>
> I think this animation would look good on the big plasmoid tooltips
> too.  For example, when I hover on the big analog clock, the sidebar
> does the cool sliding-fade-in (even looks great when it's not
> composited), but the big "This is Today's Date and Full Time" box just
> pops in.  It would look really cool on any of the plasmoids, actually,
> especially the taskbar.  And maybe more consistent.

the cute effect is done by kwin, so is up to them on what windows enable and 
what not

> Unless there's a usability/programming problem there (may not be as
> easy to animate the big tooltips).  I think I like the fade-glide
> better than the "sliding giant popup" effect that happens when you
> move from one Plasmoid to another and the giant popup follows you; it
> seems a little jerky and laggy by comparison.
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