Reply arrows slow to appear, can feel choppy

[Sandy Armstrong]

In the webkit branch, I find the reply arrows to be very slow to appear.

1. Expand Gwibber's size to show 6 or so messages.
2. Hover mouse over middle of top message.
3. Quickly move mouse straight down to bottom message.

Expected results:

Reply arrow appears quickly enough that as soon as my mouse is hovering over the bottom message, I can see the reply button.

Actual results:

Reply arrow takes a fraction of a second to appear, which I find disorienting. In addition, the fade in/out that occurs over each message my mouse passes as I move it to the bottom message is slow and choppy.

I blame jquery. I tried messing with the fade settings, and even completely removing fadeIn, but fadeOut still made things feel choppy and uneven. Eventually I found myself most satisfied when I replaced fadeIn("fast") with fadeIn(100), and fadeOut("fast") with hide(0). Using fadeIn(100) makes less reply arrows appear as you quickly mouse down the message list, without being as annoying as fadeIn("fast") ["fast"==200].

I understand this one is completely subjective...just sharing my own opinion on it. :-)

[Ryan Paul (segphault)]

The fading effect is nice sometimes but it does get annoying in certain cases. I'm going to accept your recommendation and set it to fadeIn(100) and hide(0) for now. I might make it configurable later when the full theme system is in place.