GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

[Marco Scannadinari <marco scannadinari co uk>]

Hi,
The GTK+ throbber is a dotted animation, but the one used in clutter apps / UIs use a different icon - 
instead of dots, it uses longer lines. Is this a design decision? If it is please consider the points made 
below:
    - It is inconsistent without an obvious reason as to why this is

    - The clutter-themed throbber is also used in the Adwaita cursor theme (forked from DMZ-Black(?)), and 
with the lines which are thicker than the dotted GTK one, it makes the cursor look excessively cluttered (pun 
not intended), especially in the in progress cursor (I don't know what it is called, but it is the one in 
between the (O) loader, in Windows it is the Hourglass, and  in OSX it is the spinning beach ball, and the 
normal cursor. It is basically the normal cursor with the circle attatched. It takes up nearly all space in 
its allocated circle). See  the second and third cursors from the following link for case in point:
        http://codzoyer.deviantart.com/art/Adwaita-Cursors-for-Windows-208885897

In my opinion, I think the throbbers should be consistent on all UIs - if this is to happen, then the GTK one 
should be used because of the second point outlined above.

Again, is this a design desicion?

Thanks,
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Marco Scannadinari <marco scannadinari co uk>

P.S. Sorry for the HTML email - it was written on a tablet at the time ;)