Review Request: simple animation of tabbar icons everytime kickoff is launched by pressing the KDE start button

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:53:32 Davide Bettio wrote:
> Can you revert this patch?
> I think that your patch doesn't fulfill user and plasma requirements.
> IMHO it is too slow and weird. I think that users may get annoyed by that
> animation after a couple of times.
> I remember that Zack Rusin has wrote an interesting post about animations
> on his blog. I suggest you to look for that post.

I agree with Davide here. The animation does not provide any additional value, 
it's choppy (I get two to three frames at best on an ATI X1300 and Nvidia 
7600GS) and it makes kickoff feel stalled, so less responsive. That's counter-
productive.

An animation would make sense if there was actual waiting time, but there 
isn't and shouldn't.

Also, I don't see why we should provide this as an option, it simply does not 
provide sufficient value to clutter up the UI. (In fact, I think it would 
provide a bad example.)
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sebas

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