systray icon animation, [was: greetings]

[Gianluca]

2006/10/12, Rich <rich at hq.vsaa.lv>:
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
> ...
> > How about a clock?
> >
> > At the beginning the icon is black and white, but as the song plays is
> > slowly fills in to color like a clock moving (surprise) clockwise.
> >
> > This is quite intuitive IMO - saves faffing around with up-down,
> > left-right stuff.
> >
> > I reckon we could argue now that it should start in color and become
> > black and white as the song progresses :)
>
> a simple question "up/down ?" has spawned a whole bunch of other
> possibilities :)
>
> at first i though "wha ?" - but up/down (and left/right would suffer
> from the same problem) is hard to distinct at track start/end as there
> is little detail.
> maybe a "clock" would be slightly better at this ?
>
> > /me says: "sometimes the hardest decisions to make are those with no
> > consequence" :)
> >
> > Col.

i think that the clock is a very cool idea that can resolve all the problems...
but we can find some good color fot the contrast effect because the
icon is "a little bit" small...


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