Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi Cosimo;

do you have some notes as to what kind of API you and Benjamin were
thinking about? I can probably spare a couple of cycles to work on it
for 3.10, and it would help me getting up to speed.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.


On 1 May 2013 09:15, Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org> wrote:
> 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
>
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