Animations

[Danielle Foré]

Cimi was talking about animations in Gnome Control Center and I thought "Hey! We can do that." So here's two suggested animations:

Home > Plug: quickly crossfade

Plug > Home: Slide plug to the right, revealing home below. (This would feel awesome if you used a swipe gesture for "back")

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Yeah, drawing animations are nice and can be done via gtk (I don't know how vala works, but I know how to play with that with simple C).
For automatic resizing, you probably need to write your own GtkWidget overriding GtkContainer, plus resizing the toplevel window

[xapantu (xapantu)]

The crossfade and the slide can be done easily, as Andrea said. For the resizing widget, I am less sure it is a good idea, I tried something in the past, it is doable, but the animation wasn't smooth and there was some performance issues...

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Admittedly I don't know enough about gtk3 animations, but I think it's a great idea esp. the swipe animation.

I share xapantu's concern that the animation might not be sufficiently smooth across the board. I'll definitely do some reading on gtk3 animations and have a look at playing around with them in Switchboard -- they would absolutely be nice to have.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Animated transitions are now in trunk.