On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 10:22 +0200, Nicola Fontana wrote: > Hi Kip, > > my best suggestion is not to use animations: I hate moving things in > apps and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
Hey Nicola. I hear you and I'm sure a lot of people agree. In this case, it's a user interface consideration that I think would add some simple eye candy that an end user without your level of experience and preferences might appreciate. Many other platform desktop environments, e.g. w32 and OS X display simple animations in the shell while transferring files, burning a disc, or what have you, and in many cases, users of such environments form a sizable component of my target demographics so I need to be mindful of them too. > Given that, years ago I used a GTK+2 burning front-end [1] that > integrated a libmng [2] animation while burning. It is coded in C > though. Yes, that's a good example. Sadly I'm using PyGI in a runtime environment that can depend on nothing other than the stock runtimes that come preloaded on the most common distros. > Keep in mind IMO the PNG animation status is moribund. I agree and believe that MNG and APNG are both dead or dying. I wish there was a better way to do this that I knew about. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
