As it stands animation support in toolkits only seems to involve moving around widgets (eg. Clutter, Pigment, etc.) and outside that there's not much else.

Trying to incorporate small amounts of animation that isn't just moving/spinning/rotating existing things seems quite difficult, for example the network manager applet's connecting animation and the Nautilus 'throbber' (which make the icon directories a mess of animation frames).

I think some thinking needs to be done to allow hand-made animations like these (probably frame based since animated SVG support is currently non existant) to be integrated more easily and more perform more efficiently (single image files rather than multiple? An efficient animation-specific format?).

A good example is Enlightenment 0.17 with their "Enlightenment Foundation Libraries", but reinventing GTK just to make this easier seems a bit excessive.

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