Circular Progress Bar
We now have a nice implicit progress indicator with Gtk.Spinner. But I think it'd be nice to also have an explicit progress indicator as well. This widget should probably have the same properties as Gtk.Image as far as where it can be packed and how it's used, etc.
The use case I have in mind is for something like showing file transfers in a popover in Files, or Downloads in Midori. We could make the toolbar icon something meaningful instead of a static icon and it would be adaptable to other in-progress tasks as well (like rending or converting media or installing packages).
Because we're smart, we should definitely do it programmatically and not with a series of icons. It should be theme-able with Gtk.CSS including: border, margin, background-image, and box-shadow. For the most flexible theming, I think we'd want to be able to theme it as two pieces: the background circle and foreground partial circle.
Until I do a proper mockup, http://
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- Danielle Foré
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You must be reading my mind, I was going to request something like this. The only thing I'd like to add is that it might be a good idea to make some kind of circular progress bar with a radius and arc segments as well, so that they can be nested or put around a Gtk.Label. Jolla Sailfish uses this widget to great effect.
