Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)

Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by darkwater on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:57AM (#29187857)

> KDE sort of did at some point in KDE 4.x.

I would swear it was KDE 3.x in its splash screen.

https://cdn.pling.com/img//hive/content-pre1/14801-1.png

The icons at the bottom would start in grey scale and be colored as KDE was loading.

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Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by Kwpolska on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:21AM (#29188086)

KDE 4 also used this style of splash screen (with the icons fading into view): https://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/kde4-sp...

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Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by darkwater on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:23AM (#29189704)

Yeah, now I remember, I removed KDE 4 and its clocks [1] from my memory (it actually made me switch to Gnome and never went back)

[1] basically the initial 4.0 release (which was a rewrite from scratch for the UI/Desktop component) was not usable at all as a daily driver, lots of crashes and missing features. The only thing that worked well from the start were the clock widgets, and they were showcased a lot in screenshot. I think it even reached some kind of meme status by KDE 4.1. But I cannot find any blog post / rant from the time, my search-fu is not that good.

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