On 6 Jul 2010, at 03:33, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 17:34 +0100, Gary Martin wrote: > >> Just showing the name under the pulsing icon might be a useful extra, >> but ideally the launch time should be as short as possible so might >> look odd briefly flashing up the text (the pulse animation is meant to >> be a transition, just unfortunate that most startups are still more >> than a second or three). > > Who would be interested in working on startup optimization?
Well happy to help test, but seems above my technical water line. Wade experimented (and there are patches in trac I think) with a pulse animation effect that was quicker to transition but then paused slightly at max/min. Seem to remember it took another ~couple of seconds off startup, but never made it through to a release (was part of his work on the activity startup failure message that did thankfully land). > Besides Tomeu's ongoing work on PyGI, I think we could gain a lot by > shaving off huge modules such as numpy and sharing pre-rendered svg > icons in some memory-mappable cache file. I didn't think any of Glucose used numpy? I thought it was there for Fructose (Activities) only if they needed. FWIW I have a couple of Activity projects that would use numpy but I'm not there yet. Pre-rendering is tricky as both stroke/fill colour, and image size are variable. I was hopeful after seeing Mart Raudsepp's email a week ago to the dev list about Cairo's slow rendering on XO hardware (and possible future improvements), but Wade pointed out the pulsing animation is currently a Hipocanvas thing. Regards, --Gary > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
