Just tried enabling some desktop effects; Sheet, Fall Apart and Slide Back, but they are so quick it’s almost imposible to see them. None of them have a configure button that I can find. Wobbly Windows works fine however, and has a configure button.
I’m on CachyOS and latest version of KDE
Thanks, Ian
You have to spend more time looking around Settings - try adjusting the Global animation speed… it works best set in the centre, but might be set towards instant to give the illusion of more speed.
Thanks for the tip. It would really help if things didn’t move around. I’m prepared to swear on a stack of bibles that last time I played with animation effects they were controlled by a configure button on the effect in the Desktop Effects page, but that was at least a year ago and I am old enough to claim early onset Alzheimers. I don’t remember ever seeing the Animations page (and under a different category than Desktop Effects) before. They seem to cover a lot of the same ground. And yes I did see the link to Desktop Effects from the Animations page, very convenient. Maybe there should be one from Desktop Effects to the Animations page. I might have seen that.
Now it is up to you to decide if I’m being entirely serious, happily trolling, or just completely stupid… certainly also of an age that whenever I forget where I put my keys, my wife comments that I probably have dementia, despite me having developed the skill of looking for keys on the table when they’re already in my pocket by the age of 21.
The use of English language is tricky - and it’s important to note that there are actually no ‘animation effects’.
Furthermore, what I used to think of as ‘effects’ are now ‘animations’. Note also that - at the end of ‘Animations’ is a comment/link that you can link to ‘More effects settings’ which (in English) would imply that these ‘animation settings’ are also ‘effects settings’.
It was quite recently that ‘effects’ were separated from ‘animations’ but that ‘animations’ are actually often ‘effects’ and ‘effects’ are just ‘animations’ in another category.
One might assume that non-native English speakers have taken over the narrative there… and just from a ‘dictionary corner’ viewpoint we have food for our nightmares - as we get older and ponder whether we’ll be aware of our dementia if/when it comes.
Simply using the word ‘effects’ is a misnomer - the category is actually ‘Desktop Effects’, which might imply that they are separate from ‘animations’ being only effective on the actual desktops - though I’m lost to apply this logic to explain where animations would be effective…
Furthermore, the ‘Mouse Click Animation’ is very clearly listed as an ‘Effect’ and not an Animation.
Your confusion will be noted, hopefully to some effect, and this change is likely (though I don’t have any clue to be honest) slated for further review and polish.
If you read this far, you did well - good luck working it all out
Thanks for the long and thoughtful reply.
As for dementia, let me give you some examples. I have, many times, been looking for my keys only to find them in my hand. I have also, again more than once, put some object on the floor in front of the front door as I want to take it with me when I’m going out later, and then, when I’ve actually gone out, stepped over it going out the door and cheerfully headed off without it. On the upside, I have discovered the cure for dementia. I asked my doctor once if I should be tested for. “No” she replied. “Why not?” I asked. “Your haven’t got it.” “How do you know?” “Because you asked me about it.” So, there you go. To avoid dementia, just ask your doctor if you have it.
I look forward to the next rearrangement of desktop effects / animations, and happily searching through all the settings to find them.
