Animations.

[ara4n]

Somehow we don't have an issue to track the process of finally glossing up the UI with some animations. Some obvious ones are:

• [ ] Slide messages into the timeline as they are sent. Typing notifs would similarly slide into view when being 'sent' rather than living in the status bar, a la iMessage. @lukebarnard1 had a PR for this but I can't find it now?
• [ ] Hoverovers on buttons (which the Status theme has, after a fashion)
• [ ] Fading in images (perhaps?)
• [ ] Fading in error messages
• [ ] Fading in/out or dissolving between registration/login screens
• [ ] Animated transitions on toggle buttons
• [ ] Animations when changing tint(!?)
• [ ] Transitions when minimising/maximising widgets
• [ ] Transitions when going in and out of VoIP calls
• [ ] Smooth scrolling when jumping to a permalink (if it's in the scrollback buffer)
• [ ] Fade in/out on showing tooltips and context menus
• [ ] Prettier spinner (especially on dark bg)

[lukebarnard1]

@lukebarnard1 had a PR for this but I can't find it now?

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/728 is the one. I'm not sure if it's useful any more.

[poperigby]

Maybe also have something like the jumping dots that show up next to the typing notifications in Discord.

[Johennes]

This hasn't seen any traction in a really long time and by now is probably superseded by the UI refresh / Compound adoption project anyway.

[ara4n]

this is still a valid hitlist of animations we largely lack. reopening it to get it back on the radar rather than arbitrarily hidden.