On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 05:26, Gary Martin <garycmar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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.
It was the case some time ago that Hippo would decide to request a full screen redraw at every pulse, but it was fixed to be smarter about what needs being redrawn. Or are we talking about another bug in Hippo? Regards, Tomeu > 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 > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel