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The "Launch feedback" icon, also known as the little bouncy icon that appears when you launch an application, looks really old. It's aliased and uses a small window to draw itself that can cause redraw issues when moved too quickly.

My suggestion is that this little icon should be integrated into KWin, so that it:
1. can be drawn directly to the graphics card instead of through the use of a window,
2. appears to actually be attached to the mouse cursor, because there won't be a delay currently caused by window event latency, that causes the launch feedback to trail behind the cursor.
2. can have effects applied to it (like making it dissolve into particles when the application has launched), and
3. can have a more anti-aliased appearance.

I think that this would contribute to making KDE feel more modern, and might even make some applications look like they load faster, because the transition between launching the application and actually seeing the application running will be smoother.

Yes! The bouncy icons felt OK in KDE 3.x but in KDE4 they feel... old. But at the same time this is a nice feature.

I like the suggestions.

The implementation of this was just accepted.