RFC: plasma tooltips animations

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 14 April 2014 19:12:50 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > I think these problems are fixable. First obvious question: do Tooltips
> use
> > PlasmaCore.Dialog? If yes I suggest that we move them to an own C++
> > implementation - Dialog is a beast in interaction and we might have
> taken it
> > too far. KISS might help here, adding an XSync where a sync is needed,
> > adding unit tests/integration tests against KWin could help, too.
>
> I did a very, very rough attempt in the branch
> mart/customTooltipDialog
>
> has no shadow, no transparency, sizing is kindof broken..
> but that's *not* the point
>
> what i need, is several people testing it and see wether it gives the same
> problems as using a full dialog, i just need some people that keep it for a
> while and put the thing on a stress test (like going repeatedly with the
> mouse
> over all tooltip areas to change and move the tooltips around as fast as
> possible)
> and see if it's less crashy.
> then variants can be tried like making it transparent again, with shadows
> etc,
> to see if is one of those things that is causing problems.
>

I've been trying it, looks good to me, but I don't really know what to test.

I must say it feels faster though, not scientifically tested though. ;)

Cheers!
Aleix
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