RFC: Loading animation for applets

[Omair Majid]

Lillian Angel wrote:
> Omair Majid wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patch adds an applet loading animation for IcedTeaPlugin 
>> to icedtea6.
>>
>> The patch adds binary files (images). A mercurial bundle is available 
>> from http://icedtea.classpath.org/~omajid/applet-loading-animation.hg. 
>> (Use hg unbundle to apply it.)
>>
>> The main change is adding an animator class to NetxPanel. This 
>> PluginAppetLoadingAnimator shows the animation in the panel until the 
>> applet has initialized. To have the animator stop when the applet has 
>> finished initializing, extra events have been added. All these events 
>> are now sent by AppletPanel instead of NetxPanel since only 
>> AppletPanel knows exactly what the state of the applet it.
>>
>> ChangeLog
>> 2009-05-27  Omair Majid  <omajid at redhat.com>
>>
>>     * Makefile.am
>>     (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Apply applet patches.
>>     (stamps/patch.stamp): Copy applet images over into resources/.
>>     * patches/icedtea-applet-additional-events.patch: New file. Send
>>     additional applet events. Send them from here instead of NetxPanel.
>>     * patches/icedtea-applet-images.patch: New file. Fixes and creates
>>     Makefiles to install the images into resources.jar.
> 
> Remember to update HACKING if you are creating new patches. Also, make 
> note of them here: http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea_JDK6_Patches
> 

Whoops :( I knew I was forgetting something. I will fix this before I 
commit. Any other issues?

Omair