[hobbit] Status Icons

[Omar Hermannsson]

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Hundreds of animating gifs do actually take their toll on the CPU. I actually disabled looping animated gifs in firefox due to this ;)

Cheers,
Omar


On mán 11.ágú 2008 18:46, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> If you have a few GIF images to cycle through, you can stitch them
> together using 'gifsicle':
> 
>     http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/gifsicle/
> 
> I've used that for weather radar animations, to get more than the
> standard 6 image cycle.  IIRC you can set the delay between images as
> well as the restart-loop delay and maybe other stuff too.
> 
> Ralph Mitchell
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Josh Luthman
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I know GIMP has some sort of an animation shop.
> 
>     http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/
> 
> 
>     Josh Luthman
>     Office: 937-552-2340
>     Direct: 937-552-2343
>     1100 Wayne St
>     Suite 1337
>     Troy, OH 45373
> 
>     Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
>     --- Henry Spencer
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org
>     <mailto:stef.coene at docum.org>> wrote:
> 
>         On Monday 11 August 2008, s_aiello at comcast.net
>         <mailto:s_aiello at comcast.net> wrote:
>         > Ok,
>         > Figured I break this out into a separate thread, to get all
>         ideas and
>         > thoughts about possible icons sets. Now in the past I put
>         together a set,
>         > can be found on TheShire. I am not pushing it, just restating
>         since I see
>         > alot of comments that this set applies to; color-blind
>         friendly, corporate
>         > friendly, recent icons attract the eye. So this is what is
>         presently
>         > available if you want them. I am not sure of the state of the
>         archive on
>         > TheShire, I have created a few new icons for a special
>         project. If there is
>         > interest, I can create a complete icon set (some are missing,
>         they aren't
>         > used much; circle with question mark in it). I have included a
>         screenshot
>         > in this email to give you a sampling. Also, I think past
>         feedback suggested
>         > the pulsing might be better if slower, again if there is
>         interest I can
>         > implement that & provide an update icon set archive.
>         Some thoughts.
> 
>         Green is ok, so a static icon is fine: keep the smiley.
> 
>         Red / Orange is bad, so a pulsing or changing icon for atracting
>         attention.  A
>         red smiley with the shape like the stop road sign pulsating to
>         an X.  An
>         orange smiley with a triangle shape plusating to a - or _.  Red
>         pulsating
>         faster then orange.
> 
>         For the other colors, the shape is not that important.
> 
>         Who knows a good program for creating animated icons for linux ?
> 
> 
>         Stef
> 
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