Hey,
I would like to know if there is a formal stance on animations in the GUI.
I thought initially that Haiku had no animations whatsoever, but lately I keep
seeing more of them (not that they have been all recently added.)
Some examples:
* Barber pole animation (Idle animation)
* WebPostive HTTP auth violent shaking of the window on wrong password
* Shutdown Icon animations
Personally for me the WebPositive one should be removed atleast, windows moving
by themselves is quite unerving.
For me the other two seem kind of wierd, I am not a fan of idle animations but
atleast for motion sickness those two seem to be fine.
(Aslong as there are no spinnners everywhere...)
If the intended amount of animations is none to very few it may make sense to
set the "prefers low motion" flag for webkit by default,
this is equivalent to enabeling "low motion" accesibillity settings on MacOS,
iOS. For example the Apple site will stop doing this giant animated slideshow
and be a normal scrollable site instead.
What are your thougts?
Regards,
Pascal "nephele" Abresch
