Animate style hint

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

Okay, so we have a consent here then. Was just throwing that thing into the room to see what happens.


"Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org> schrieb:

>On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:02:28 Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>> user doesn't want them. That's one thing that always bothered me that
>> Plasma always animates no matter what the system settings were. I have had
>
>this should mostly be supported in the standard components. plugging every bit 
>of code with "if (animate) then" type snippets is going to be ugly and 
>fragile. as such would much rather see this done in the underlying layer as 
>much as possible.
>
>when libplasma provided its own animations, guess what they did? yep, they 
>didn't animate when the desktop settings were set to turn animations off. 
>shocking! this in turn used a setting that was introduced years before in 
>kdelibs for such things.
>
>problems:
>
>* people who complain about these things rarely if ever put in any effort
>* it's something that bothers a tiny % of people, while the vast majority of 
>people are *aided* by animations
>
>put together, it means we have a feature set that gets zero testing and has 
>approximately as many developers who care about it.
>
>so unless one of these animation haters steps up to maintain the features, i 
>will happily say 'no' to patches which introduce such things.
>
>i seriously think most people[1] who "don't like animations" should get over 
>it. i can't imagine how they survive in the real world where everything is 
>"animated"
>
>[1] i say most because i'm sure someone somewhere out there has a legitimate 
>disability that somehow comes into play
>
>-- 
>Aaron J. Seigo
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