GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 382207
Tab throbber is momentarily invisible at the beginning of every cycle
Last modified: 2006-12-04 22:10:42 UTC
Epiphany 2.16.1, Ubuntu 6.10 The throbber used on tabs while pages are loading is quite nice, but it blinks as the dark segment reaches 12 o'clock. This suggests that there is an accidental blank frame in the animation.
Which icon theme are you using? I don't see that here, where the spinner is a gnome foot.
I guess it's tango-icon-theme? I found /usr/share/icons/Tango/32x32/animations/gnome-spinner.png which does indeed contain an empty frame. Forwarded to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9236 .
The name specification defines process-working to include the 'still' frame. Historically the GNOME side of things has been using a separate file for this (unlike KDE for example). If applications aim to support the naming scheme, they should follow the spec. * http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
Btw, what's the design framerate of that tango spinner? It looks 'unrestful' at epiphany's 8 fps.
Created attachment 77672 [details] [review] make epiphany use 'process-working' instead of ephy-spinner This patch fixes the problem for me, and still seems to work fine with current g-i-t's gnome-spinner icon too.
Fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major release. Thank you for your bug report. If there are no regressions, it's possible I'll apply the patch to gnome-2-16 too before 2.16.3 release.