Hi, I've tried recently KDE, and by default it has too much visual effects, IMHO. With time, it seems that GNOME follows the same path, there are more and more visual effects.
I think too much visual effects is bad for a distraction-free desktop. Exactly the same principle applies for presentation slides. To take an extreme example, it's not really a good idea to add a firework animation between each slide… The public will be less concentrated on the contents of the presentation. On a desktop you want to focus on the work you're working on. If more and more visual effects are added to GNOME, and if at one point we realize (too late) that it's too much, removing lots of visual effects for the next release will be seen as a regression, and it'll be much harder to explain to users. The recent example that I have in mind is the background fading when selecting a row in a GtkTreeView (and for GtkListBox too I think). It's really a small detail: when a row is deselected, the background color goes from blue to white with a progressive fading. And inversely when you select a row. Now try the following steps, I think you will be slightly distracted by the background fading of the *deselected* row: 1. Select a row in the list, if not already done. 2. You're searching another item in the list, so you read each item one by one, until you find what you're searching for (if there is no search functionality). 3. Your eyes are focused on the new row you want to select, and you select that row! 4. If the previous selected row is still visible on the screen, you'll be slightly distracted by the background fading of the row being deselected. Does that make sense? I know it's really a small detail, but when updating gtk+ recently and seeing this for the first time, I thought it was "too much". In KDE there are probably more evident examples. Best regards, Sébastien _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
