Having said that, there are plenty of similar changes that can be implemented across the stack by relative newcomers; the recommendation is to stay laser focused on a small enough scope, and avoid trying to generalise solutions, turning a fix into a rewrite of the world. That's a sure fire way to burn out, never finish anything, and build a reputation of an architecture astronaut that never amounts to anything except hot air on issue trackers

ugh I think I somehow became an architect astronaut, at least as seen by others

@grimmy that term only applies if you're not writing code any more…

that's a relief 😅

Yep, the existing settings portal is not exposing the "enable animations" toggle that GTK expects, and KDE has a setting for the animation duration (with zero meaning disable animations) instead. Ideally, once we have this shared setting, we can properly bridge it, and implement true reduced motion, instead of a janky "turn every animation into an immediate end state transition"