Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:

Marco Scannadinari <marco scannadinari co uk> wrote:
>         Cosimo or Benjamin can tell you more about the specifics.
>
> Thanks. By Cosmio and Benjamin, do you mean Cosimo Cecchi and Benjamin
> Otte?

I do indeed. :) (I was kinda hoping that they'd chime in.)

Hi Marco and Allan,

Indeed the reason they're different is the "line style" the shell spinner - and former GtkSpinner widget - has is not possible to do with pure CSS gradients while keeping arbitrary scalability of the widget.

Our long term plan for this would be to have a set of predefined sizes for the spinner (as we currently do for icons). This would make it possible to achieve the animation from the theme using actual image assets instead of layered CSS gradients, which gives us all the flexibility we need to ensure consistency, but no-one stepped in and actually tried to implement this idea yet.

Cosimo