On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On Thursday, January 10, 2013 17:49:48 Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> Am 2013-01-10 16:07, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: >> > on that note, startup stuff should probably move into kwin since it >> > also >> > provides the visual effect for it. it's probably also more future >> > proof with >> > Wayland's security model coming at us in the future... dunno what >> > Martin G. >> > thinks about that idea? >> >> when I started to read the mail, I wanted to click reply with "what >> about moving the startup feedback completely to KWin", then decided to >> read the mail to the end first ;-) > > ha! good, we agree on this point then and i'll move the startup handling into > kwin itself (might have some questions for you as i do so ..); you can expect > a review request on that for 4.11. > >> For the startup feedback we might also consider to just drop the >> non-composited mode and call it a day. > > i agree. this will be a small gregression for usability on non-composited > systems, but i don't see it as a REQUIREMENT feature. given how compositing > works on more and more systems that are actually in use better and better i > cast my vote in favour of making this feature compositing-only so we have one > less code path to test. > >> I think Fredrik started to work >> on an improved effect [1] and well our bouncing cursor is not really >> that modern... > > while a number of people really like the bouncy icon, i think we can refresh > it with some more modern and beautiful while keeping the "eye candy" that > people seem to respond to. i don't think anyone will miss the bouncy icon if > its replacement is beautiful.
-- just some random thoughts on that bouncy icon Let the icon "explode" in with a shockwave/blastwave shader and add particle effects to it that constantly emit till the icon is gone. When the icon is about to go, run some more fancy cool animations :-) That will certainly give quite a first impression for new KDE users ^_- > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel