[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Activity startup idea

[Gary C Martin]

On 23 Feb 2009, at 20:46, Wade Brainerd wrote:

> Opening up a conversation with Eben about the activity startup  
> animation.  The pulsing, scaling icon appears to slow down activity  
> startup, at least on slow hardware like the XO.
>
> I suggested replacing the pulsing icon with a static one, and  
> surrounding it with dots at a rate of 1 per second.
> Eben suggests an alternative, replacing the pulsing one with a  
> blinking icon.
> It strikes me that the two could possibly be combined.

To be honest, I like the idea of static icon with 'clock' dots  
appearing as an alternative. Now I do like the current pulsing (there  
to prevent impatient random clicking on other UI slowing things down  
even more), but if no one can code the pulsing lean enough, given the  
XO hardware, then we perhaps need to move on.

--Gary

> Anyone else want to weigh in?
>