Hey Marco, Marco Scannadinari <[email protected]> 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 -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
