[Feature Request] Timeline animation: slow down trips, speed up stationary periods

[SedMek]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When playing the timeline animation, every segment animates at the same fixed speed regardless of how much is actually happening on the map. If I spend 8 hours at home and then go out for 15 minutes, the trip plays back so quickly it's nearly impossible to notice — even though it's the most visually interesting part of the day.

Describe the solution you'd like
Animation speed should reflect geographic activity: segments where the map marker is moving significantly (trips) should animate more slowly so the movement is visible, while long stationary periods should animate faster since nothing meaningful is happening on screen. A configurable minimum duration per segment would prevent very short trips from disappearing entirely.

Describe alternatives you've considered
A user-selectable playback mode could work — e.g. "activity-based speed" vs. "equal per segment" — giving users control without changing the current default behavior.

Additional context
Reitti already knows the distance and duration of every trip and visit, so the data needed to calculate relative geographic activity is already available.

Thank you for the work, I really appreciate the project!

[dgraf-gh]

@SedMek, thank you for that idea. Awesome work in providing a great description. Will definitely look into how this can be incorporated.

[christaikobo]

Oh this is something that is bugging me as well.

Another idea I thought of is to make the animation more obvious, like more sparkling.

[dgraf-gh]

Another idea I thought of is to make the animation more obvious, like more sparkling.

Yes, will also look into that. I spent a week in getting the current version somehow pleasing but I also acknowledge that there is still a lot of space for improvement.

[christaikobo]

Another improvement which can be made here is to force center the view.

By this I mean when replaying or manually dragging the timeline, the current location should always be centered and the map view should keep the zoom level but pan the map automatically.