Module orbs 

Thinking orbs — dotted loading indicators for AI & agent UIs, ported from gpui-thinking-orbs (MIT), itself a port of Jakub Antalik’s thinking-orbs.

Twelve hand-tuned animated states, four size presets, monochrome ink on a transparent canvas. The animation engine is pure Rust; only the paint path talks to gpui.

cx.new(|_| Orb::new().state(OrbState::Searching).size(OrbSize::Avatar))

Style flows through the environment like the rest of bezel: OrbTheme::Auto resolves ink against the installed theme::Appearance at paint time. The engine is the public engine module below — the “advanced” tier for custom paint loops.

Modules

engine

Backend-agnostic animation engine (ported from thinking-orbs).

Structs

Orb

Animated thinking-orb status indicator for AI / agent UIs.

Resolved

Fully resolved draw options for a (state, size) pair.

Enums

ModeKey

Internal mode keys — one painter per key. Grows in lockstep with OrbState, hence #[non_exhaustive].

OrbSize

Rendered size in logical pixels. Four tuned presets ship: inline (20), avatar (64), large (96), and hero (128). Larger sizes add detail gradually instead of merely stretching the 64 px artwork.

OrbState

The twelve shipped states — each a hand-tuned animation.

OrbTheme

Theme mode for monochrome ink on transparent canvas.

Constants

DEFAULT_TARGET_FPS

Frames per second the orb redraws at when no explicit rate is set.

Functions

orb_element

Paint one frame of an orb at animation time t (seconds, unbounded) — the pure, host-ticked form of Orb. Build it inside any render that runs on a clock of its own; the reduced-motion convention is t = 0.6.

resolve_preset

Resolve a (state, size) pair to its mode + fully-scaled draw options.