[Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Bug update on ticket no 2080 (Pulsing icon delayed by 5 seconds)

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:44 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> The last time i see it appears like the code was rendering the svg
> image every time with the new color selected.

Yes, there's no other good way. Flood-filling isn't going to play nice
with anti-aliasing. I guess the rendering stops after one full cycle,
thanks to the icon cache, but it still sucks.


> I think you have talked about implementing a different animation with
> a icon fixed and a dot cycling around like when the XO starts.
> Probably this will be much more efficient.
> It's a nice project ;)

Yeah, that would be awesome!

Do we have to solve the non-trivial problem of timing the dot correctly
with the activity startup? Hmmm... perhaps we could just make it do a
complete circle every second.

The bug Animator not being able to skip frames when rendering is too
slow should probably be fixed independently of this improvement to the
startup animation.

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