[Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [PATCH v5 sugar] Pulsing icon delayed by 5 seconds or so SL#2080

[Samuel Greenfeld]

I was wondering about this as well.

I am more of a backend programmer, but the most obvious thing that 
stands out to me is that Sugar activities do not seem to regularly 
change their launch icons.  They are not like system tray or Sugar frame 
icons which alter themselves to tell us information.

Pardon me if I missed the back story here (I've read most of this 
thread, and glanced at the source code) but why do we see the need to 
render the animation on the fly, if that is indeed what is going on?  We 
may not want activities to package their own animations which could vary 
widely in design, but nothing should stop Sugar from pre-rendering 
animations for all past used/anticipated screen sizes on the first 
download/run of an activity (maybe as an SVG animation, or for speed at 
the screen's current resolution/color depth), or any of the OS builders 
from generating them for commonly expected screen sizes presuming full 
color depth.

The major drawbacks to this are adding code complexity, as well as a 
bias against Sugar on a Stick & CD/DVD-based users; the former may 
encounter a variety of different computers, while the latter has no 
permanent storage.  But I would hope that rendering at first run (or in 
an idle detecting process) would take care of them.


Also, I don't know how things are nowadays, but it seems like most Sugar 
activity icons are essentially tristate in nature (stroke color, fill 
color, and the background mask).  While you may or may not be able to 
play off of this with hardware color palette rotation anymore, there has 
still got to be somewhere where you can use this to your advantage.



On 10/28/10 22:35, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:26:33AM +0530, Anurag Chowdhury wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Gonzalo Odiard<gonzalo at laptop.org>  wrote:
>>> I think the problem is the code is rendering the svg icon every time
>>> the color is changed.
>>> There are not cache or cairo operation used to avoid this.
>>>
>>> Gonzalo
>> Certainly that seems to me as a possible reason behind this issue ,
>> but in the present state we need to decide exactly on what future we
>> want for this pulsing icon i.e. keep it , improve it or replace it.
> I guess that's why Gonzalo raised the point.  It's usually better to
> fix the problem than to fix a symptom.
>
> Martin
>
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