Re: Sharing the spinner with icon theme

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 18May2003 09:28PM (+0200), Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> I'd like to know if it would be possible to share the spinner (throbber)
> between nautilus and epiphany.
> Using the gnome icon theme would seem like the right way to do it, with
> the advantage to make it themable too.
> Current implementation doesnt use a single animation though, but a set
> of images.
> Would make sense to change it to use an animated gif instead ?

GIFs only support one bit of transparency. I dunno if people use
transparency in spinners, but if they did, I expect they would want
proper anti-aliasing. MNG is a format based which supports animation
similar to animated GIFs, but which has a full alpha channel like PNG.

 - Maciej