Re: Sharing the spinner with icon theme

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 21:28, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> I'd like to know if it would be possible to share the spinner (throbber)
> between nautilus and epiphany.
> Using the gnome icon theme would seem like the right way to do it, with
> the advantage to make it themable too.
> Current implementation doesnt use a single animation though, but a set
> of images.
> Would make sense to change it to use an animated gif instead ?
> Possible problems:
> 
> - Legal problems. The GIF patents are expired, so I think this should
> not be an issue.
> - The quality of gifs is limited to 256 colors. I've been able to
> convert the default spinner without apparent lose of quality though.
> http://mpgritti.oltrelinux.com/spinner.gif
> So it seem to be possible to build nice spinners also with only 256
> colors (and anyway, without using icon theme, they would not be themable
> at all)
> - The icon theme specification apparently doesnt support gif
> "The image files must be one of the types: PNG, XPM, or SVG"
> Is it intended ?
Yes, this is intended, to allow implementations that don't have to
implement old broken file formats.

The way kde handles this is by having a large icon with all the frames
on a grid. That would work fine for us too. 

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