[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Activity startup idea

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

The pulsing doesn't prevent random clicking.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
>
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