From ./configure --help [...] --enable-animation compile clearlooks with animation support [...] This enabled animated progress bars in the clearlooks theme. Other distributions like ubuntu have this enabled by default and Gentoo should provide a use flag to allow that optionally.
Thanks for the interesting suggestion, let's see what the gnome team thinks
We have it unconditionally always enabled already. What do you want to be done here?
Strange, I oversaw that it is enabled always. The thing is, the flag seems not to have any effect here. Normally progress bars should be animated which they aren't in my case. Can you confirm this behavior?
The configure flag enables support. The theme has to declare wanting that support. For example the default Clearlooks theme doesn't, because it says animation = FALSE in /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc So select a theme that makes use of animations. I admit I have in the past edited Clearlooks theme myself to animation = TRUE, but that is a bit dirty.
Thank you very much for the explaination. Maybe when USE=animation is set, seding the gtkrc?
(In reply to comment #5) > Thank you very much for the explaination. Maybe when USE=animation is set, > seding the gtkrc? > please no such hack. If you want a theme with animation, just write one. It's easy to write a gtkrc that includes another one and just changes the animation variable to TRUE.
I think the solution should be an upstream one. Perhaps instead of TRUE and FALSE there should be one for honoring the "gtk-enable-animations"[1] global toolkit setting, or just doing that only. 1. http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-enable-animations
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