Spinner/throbber looks a bit out of place about firefox-gnome

[pulb]

The new spinning and connecting throbbers really look awesome!

[garrett]

Thanks!

I'm glad you like both of them. The spinner is pretty much what's used in GNOME, but I had to think creatively for the connecting one. I made it 3 dots like the wireless connecting icon and animated it similar to ones like on Facebook. It's great that it worked out — I personally like it better than the default Firefox spinning-backwards-with-a-different-color indicator (but I'm biased). (:

[pulb]

Yeah the connecting animation made me think of network manager immedialtely, so I think this animation is a good choice :-) What did you use to create those APNGs btw?

[garrett]

It's convoluted, but I made the graphic frames in Inkscape, then exported to PNG, then split them into actual different frames in Gimp, saved them manually, and ran apngasm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/apngasm/) on the PNGs at the command line.

[garrett]

Gimp does not support APNG (except for a hacky plugin which requires rebuilding libpng with a patch), and I did not write a frame splitting script for Inkscape.

I did use the split.c plugin for Gimp to break up the frames. You have to install it with gimptool-2.0 --install split.c and need the necessary gimp-devel packages and dependencies.

[pulb]

Ok thanks, good to know.