[Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

[Gary Martin]

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

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