RFC: Loading animation for applets

[Mark Wielaard]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:46 -0400, Omair Majid wrote:
> >>      * plugin/icedtea/sun/applet/resources/icedtea-background-*.jpeg:
> >>      Frames for the loading animation.
> > 
> > Very cute, but 60 frames, 55K each, adding 3MB...
> > Could that be reduced a bit please.
> > 
> 
> You should have seen the original version: 12MB :) I will try and cut 
> down the size. What would be an acceptable upper limit? 1Mb? 500k? 100k?

Small is beautiful. I would say more towards 100k. Note that the current
resources.jar is just 1MB, the whole rt.jar is 60MB. I know, I am a
party-pooper. But maybe you can come up with some fancy code to slow
fade between just 2 frames and make that look like melting ice with some
funky imageio transforms?

Cheers,

Mark