<div dir="ltr">I would not invest work in improving the palette animations for the following reasons:<div><br></div><div>* Right now, we have two different palettes implementations. The old, based in Gtk.Menu,</div><div>used only when we need submenus (Journal, Clipboard) and the new.</div><div>Was proposed remove the old implementation [1] </div><div>* The palette code is a nightmare, and now Gtk have the popovers,</div><div>that provide a similar functionality [2]</div><div>* There are a lot of bugs related to palettes [3]</div><div>* Popovers will implement animations [4]</div><div>* We can remove a lot of code. Remove code is better than write code :) </div><div><br></div><div>If I had free cpu cycles, I would invest in research if is possible theme</div><div>Gtk popovers to look as our palettes, and if there are any limitation </div><div>than could be a blocker. </div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4768">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4768</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkPopover.html">https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkPopover.html</a></div><div>[3] <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&description=~palette&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&description=~palette&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://plus.google.com/+WorldofGnomeOrg/posts/Tf3xBLZi13E?pid=6118354207602136850&oid=112026213399155142823">https://plus.google.com/+WorldofGnomeOrg/posts/Tf3xBLZi13E?pid=6118354207602136850&oid=112026213399155142823</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:23 AM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">G'day Sam,<br>
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I'm fine with that as long as the animations can be configured off for<br>
old hardware.<br>
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I think the official video was artistic work, not an implementation.<br>
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James Cameron<br>
<a href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/" target="_blank">http://quozl.linux.org.au/</a><br>
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