Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Hey Marco,

Marco Scannadinari <marco scannadinari co uk> wrote:
> 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?
...

I agree that the throbbers should be the same. The inconsistency is
because of a technical issue - the use of dots was the result of using
CSS and requiring scalability. A fix has been discussed in the past,
apparently. Cosimo or Benjamin can tell you more about the specifics.

Allan
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