Animate the menu bar icon for all the things

[sindresorhus]

Currently, we have a nice animation in the menu bar icon when Kap prepares to record. Would be nice to have an animation in the icon during other tasks too, like converting, exporting, and uploading.

[skllcrn]

ANIMATE ALL THE THINGS

[karaggeorge]

How would that work when you have parallel exports going? Also even while you are doing those tasks, you can still record again (in 3.0) so it might get a bit confusing what animation it needs to use when. Would be interesting to come up with something though!

[sindresorhus]

How would that work when you have parallel exports going?

It would show the total progress or just an indeterminate progress indicator.

Also even while you are doing those tasks, you can still record again (in 3.0) so it might get a bit confusing what animation it needs to use when.

If you record again, it would just ignore the export progress and show the recording stuff.

[karaggeorge]

I think that'd look really nice. Is there a way we can programmatically set the tray icon (as in make the icons in js) or do we have to pre-define it and load the assets like we do currently for the animation?

[sindresorhus]

It currently only supports an image, but we could dynamically generate each frame with <canvas>.