Hello, As a result of the previous discussion [0], I set out to see what all the current plasma apps (in svn) were doing in regards to animation so I gathered some data simply by grepping for customAnimation through their sources [1], then checking out what they were doing.
In short: 7 fades 2 slides 1 expand / contract Not many chained together! (Keep in mind that a sample set of 10 a) So, apparently, people don't use a large variety of animations at all, and don't chain them parallelly. One example of parallel animations I spotted was the rssnow app, where when one news item slid out and the other slid in. Another was the pager, where you can slide your mouse over several desktop icons and they will all keep fading at the same time, although this is more the "fire and forget" type of animation aseigo was talking about. Anyway, maybe the reason for scarce use and lack of variety in animations is that people can't / are too lazy to (not in the bad sense) write animations, so they simply opt not to. When this layer makes it upstream, more people might take notice of its existence and decide to use more animations. So, obviously, it looks like we need a fade effect :) But taking into consideration what I just said, it might be foresighted to add a little more. I'll pick and play around with some plasmoids to see what else could be added to them. Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? -- ~ mali (http://constant.inople.net/) [0] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2009-May/005927.html [1] http://blackwater.constant.inople.net/gsoc/usage.txt _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel