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== Summary ==

== Summary ==

Animate each frame as Gtk+ needs a new frame drawn instead of at whatever frame rate we want.

Animate each frame as Gtk+ needs a new frame drawn instead of at whatever frame rate we want.

== Current status ==

== Current status ==

* Targeted release: 0.108

* Merged in 0.109.0.1

* Last updated: 4 July 2015

* Last updated: 18 June 2016

* Percentage of completion: 50%

* Percentage of completion: 100% MERGED

== Detailed Description ==

== Detailed Description ==

* Toolkit implementation (100%):  https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/213

* Toolkit implementation (100%):  https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/213

* Frame and Home view (100%):  https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/505  Frame and homeview are a good spot for tick based animation as we are not cpu bound to open the frame or change views - the animation can take up 100% cpu and all will be fine

* Frame and Home view (100%):  https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/505  Frame and homeview are a good spot for tick based animation as we are not cpu bound to open the frame or change views - the animation can take up 100% cpu and all will be fine

* Pulsing icon (20%):  https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/513  Opening an activity is a cpu bound task, so this is probably the wrong space for animations that steal all of the cpu.

* Pulsing icon (NO-GO):  https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/513  Opening an activity is a cpu bound task, so this is probably the wrong space for animations that steal all of the cpu.  This patch TRIPLES activity start times on the XO4.

== Benefit to Sugar ==

== Benefit to Sugar ==

== Scope ==

== Scope ==

Doesn't break anything.

Animation consumers need to add the "widget=x" when creating an animator so they can have the tick callback attached.

Animation consumers need to add the "widget=x" when creating an animator so they can have the tick callback attached.

Consumers who don't are not effected.

==UI Design==

==UI Design==

== How To Test ==

== How To Test ==

1. Apply the patches <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/213> and <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/505>

https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/258#issuecomment-145695297

4. Change between home views (F1-F3) to enjoy the smoothness of the animating size of the xo-person

== User Experience ==

== User Experience ==

== Documentation ==

== Documentation ==

add the widget=x

Included in the toolkit patch

== Release Notes ==

== Release Notes ==

== Comments and Discussion ==

== Comments and Discussion ==

All the pull requests

https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/258