Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-02 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Cosimo Cecchi cosi...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk wrote: I think using the very nice throbber by the Tango people would look a lot nicer and reduce the work (?) needed to standardise the throbber

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-02 Thread Marco Scannadinari
I'd be pretty surprised if DMZ has been forked. Jakub Steiner, who designed DMZ, is one of the current gnome-themes-standard maintainers, and I'm not aware of any changes to the pointer theme. I don't know for sure that it has been forked, but it seems quite likely

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-02 Thread Marco Scannadinari
And with regards to how I thought that the Tango project created the throbber, I was blindly convinced by these links: commacommacrash.com/2007/08/animated-gif-for-tango-throbber.html commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spinning_wheel_throbber.gif‎ -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Allan Day
Hey Marco, Marco Scannadinari ma...@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

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
Cosimo or Benjamin can tell you more about the specifics. Thanks. By Cosmio and Benjamin, do you mean Cosimo Cecchi and Benjamin Otte? -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Allan Day
Marco Scannadinari ma...@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.) Allan

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Marco Scannadinari ma...@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

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
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 cosi...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, May 1,

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
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

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: 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. Hi Emmanuele,

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk wrote: I think using the very nice throbber by the Tango people would look a lot nicer and reduce the work (?) needed to standardise the throbber sizes in GNOME. Hi Marco, I'm not sure which is the Tango throbber

GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-04-30 Thread Marco Scannadinari
Hi, 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 -