[e-users] Help wanted with disabling iBar animations.

Hello E mailing list,

I am the maintainer of AV Linux which is an independent specialized 
Audio and Video Linux Distribution based on Debian Stable and using the 
build toolchain of MX Linux. AV Linux has been around since 2007 and up 
until last year I used LXDE and later XFCE4 Desktop Environments but 
since moving to Debian Bookworm and MX-23 I've been using Enlightenment 
as the Desktop Environment. I could be wrong but I believe AV Linux is 
the only Distribution habitually in the Distrowatch rankings that is 
using pure Enlightenment 0.25 as it's DE. I will say that it's pretty 
obvious E is not designed to deploy in a turnkey state on Live Media but 
with some determination and assistance here and there most of those 
issues are ironed out..

Now to get closer to my point, I can't say that adopting E has been a 
terribly popular decision and I've taken a lot of flack about it but 
personally I think it has been a good move and I'm very happy with it's 
smooth Desktop presentation and miser-like RAM usage and with every 
built ISO I'm able to make the experience a bit smoother but I have one 
constant User complaint that has been persistent enough that I need to 
ask some help to fix it. The complaint is about the Icon animations in 
the iBar and it irks people to almost comical proportions. I'd like to 
ask for some help and guidance to disable it in the default FLAT E 
theme. I am NOT a developer, I know my way around building ISO's, 
hacking configs, doing some Debian Packaging and some light scripting 
with YAD and wading into to something like writing or modifying EDC code 
is currently a bridge to far for me both time-wise and skill-wise. Yes, 
I have made some minor light modifications to the default FLAT theme but 
after a few hours of messing with the iBar edc code and getting nowhere 
I thought I'd ask for some help. The only change I want is for the iBar 
Icons to not to be animated and to simply highlight and display their 
tooltip label. Beyond that and the changes I've already made I'm very 
happy with the default E theme and I have 3 sets of palettes and 
matching GTK color themes to accompany it.

I would be willing to offset the time and effort required for assistance 
with a PayPal donation if there are any developers or advanced users who 
are interested in helping. I'm pulling together an ISO update so 
although it isn't a rush a timely solution would be pretty handy.

If interested info on AV Linux is here: http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/
My current modified FLAT theme is here in a Deb Package: 
https://bandshed.net/packages/AVL_MXe-23.X/SYSTEM_DEV/CORE/enlightenment-default-avl-theme-20241113-bookworm1-1_all.deb
GTK Themes and matching E Palettes in a Deb Package: 
https://bandshed.net/packages/AVL_MXe-23.X/SYSTEM_DEV/CORE/enlightenment-skeuos-gtk-themes-20241008-bookworm1-1_all.deb

Thanks for reading and I look forward to participating give and take on 
the list in case any of the AV Linux Enlightenment customizations are 
useful to other Users.

Best Regards, Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer

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