[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Test startup animations

[Chris Leonard]

It would be good to have some idea of how a 1.75 performs under the
various methods being discussed.

cjl

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> I can't talk about timings without testing your code, but I am for any
> change we can do to
> accelerate the startup of activities.
> My code do the render of the svg only one time, and previous timings we
> found this operation
> have a big cost. Probably we can accelerate the animation more with server
> side operations,
> but I am not an expert.
> Any help is welcome
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Benjamin Berg <benzea at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 16:47 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>> > I have prepared a few videos to show the change in the startup
>> > animation I am proposing
>>
>> A long time ago I implemented an icon cache, and optimized the startup
>> animation (based on that). The speed improvement on the XO (B2/mass
>> production, not sure what I tested on) was very large back then. The
>> patch is rather large though, and will likely not apply anymore.
>>
>> I am not sure if the improvement for the pulsing icon needs the cache to
>> work, but IIRC the patch on top of the icon cache one.
>>
>> If someone is interested, I can dig it up again.
>>
>> The relevant tickets are http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8000#comment:25
>> and http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8822 (outch, still on laptop.org).
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
>> PS: From Ticket 8000: "The icon drawing can be sped up quite a bit, if
>> the icon cache is server side rather than client side. This shaved off
>> 35% of the drawing time in a quick test here."
>>
>
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