Right, however I never intended to spend this much time on the project (and I know nothing about PPA’s).
I haven’t yet found a solution/design that I feel is good enough to be included in the community theme, so I guess there’s more attempts are coming.
@jasonflindt Once the design is final, I’ll add a dark version of that.
@c-lobrano Don’t you think it’s difficult to locate? It doesn’t work at all on orange backgrounds.
Since I’ve started looking into this I’ve been noticing spinners everywhere (Websites, Netflix, McD, gas stations,…). My take away has been that it HAS to be a circle or something spinning. Of course you don’t want (like the first attempt) something too similar to the competition, but you also don’t want something too out of the ordinary. In other words, you don’t want the user to go: “that was unexpected” - you want a traditionel spinner with a branding element IMHO.
Yes . But the spinner can become part of the branding too eg OSX beach ball.
Imho it’s should be something simple in a style and easy to recognise. As much as I like #7 I think a slightly smaller #3 would be perfect . Edit I was thinking #2 orange .
My vote goes now to 5, 7 and 9 …BUT I have an issue I’m not sure if it is intended or not. All spinners have very short interval, disappearing too fast to be noticed.
Sorry, I was out for some holidays and have quite some backlog to do. I’ll test them out as soon as I can (probably next week) and will keep you posted The preview pictures look promising.
Everything is mostly working out here. I’m pushing the support in the distribution (as we need some workarounds), but we should be good!
@madsrh: As I want to include the cursor theme itself, do you mind if we move your project to the ubuntu namespace (and maybe rename the repo ;))? I’ll then point to it.
I need to select on theme by default. I’m defaulting to Communitheme_12 for now, but we can easily switch.
Note as well that some subdirectories don’t have cursor.theme and index.theme. Mind fixing this?
Yes! I really like the Full Circle one, it’s like the Unity 8 spinner but orange and filled in…though I think the Communitheme in general needs to grapple with the Unity 8 vs 17.10 Ambiance dilemma which @jaggersso eloquently put (I admit I only skim-read that, but it does seem to be something that the Communitheme needs to grapple with more). If the Communitheme is going for few changes on Adwaita but Unity 8 colors…then does it make sense to use blue for the loading circle? Is there anywhere else that the Communitheme should be using blue (as per the Unity 8 design spec)? If the Communitheme is actually going more for continuity with Ambiance, but flatter (and ultimately rebuilt from Adwaita), then the loading circle should probably be orange (and the blue highlights elsewhere should also be scrapped), but the Unity 8 dots one could be good (except orange rather than blue)… Maybe the Canonical spinner could be good but you’ve made that seem rather large so it has lots of transparent space?
Could the cursor theme be based on a black theme as it’s more standard and less Windows-like? A black cursor is much more visible and looks a lot better than the white one.
But if even Windows 10 has it, which is rather behind in design discussions, why shouldn’t we?
Most of the desktop backgrounds and applications have bright backgrounds, so a black cursor is naturally more visible