Update loading icon and use SVG

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I setup a codepen to review the before (GIF) and after (SVG) from the MR.

https://codepen.io/jameswilson/pen/wvbWNbr

Things are really close and this is exciting!

I found a few minor but important things to consider:

• The SVG duration is currently 1.0 seconds, but the GIF duration is 0.8 seconds (verified by uploading the current <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/raw/d40360cb42b154235c5ec3f2edf7696f211f5726/core/misc/loading-small.gif">loading-small.gif</a> to ezgif.com (here). One second appears slower and more lethargic, which is not what you want to portray when displaying a loader. There needs to be a slight sense of urgency that 0.8 seconds provides, versus 1 second.
• The GIF size is 24 x 24 pixels, the SVG is 25 x 25. I suggest we maintain the same dimensions by default if possible (people can always resize it with CSS later, and since its a vector it will still look good!
• Needs testing on simplytest.me with a before/after screenshot to ensure the rounded corners applied via CSS still look good.
• Issue needs summary update, and we should hide all the old patches, attachments, and approaches.

I've pushed fixes for the two items, and created a new codepen for comparison:

0.8s at 24px

https://codepen.io/jameswilson/pen/oNRLVxx

Compare against previous pen with 1s at 25px

https://codepen.io/jameswilson/pen/wvbWNbr

Restore issue summary lost by comment #43.

Clean up issue summary.

Hide file attachments from previous approaches in the issue summary.

Remaining tasks:

• Needs replacement for loading.gif => loading.svg (with roughly the same SVG used for loading-small.svg, only with different dimensions.
• Needs testing on simplytest.me with a before/after screenshots of loading.svg and loading-small.svg, to ensure no visual regressions.

I found an instance of loading-small.gif in the starterkit_theme that can be removed:

./core/themes/starterkit_theme/images/icons/loading-small.gif

I've fixed both points made in #60. NR.

Since we're deleting the GIFs, we may want to consider adding a .htaccess rules to redirect the requests for the deleted GIF images to their respective SVG image counterparts. Thoughts?

I've created a comparison codepen for loading.gif => loading.svg

https://codepen.io/jameswilson/pen/OJYXqZE?

May need a rebase. Reran the unit tests multiple time but fails each.

Rebased.

There are all kinds of seemingly unrelated test failures after the rebase. It seems the 11.x branch may be a bit unstable at the moment.

Yay. tests pass now

So brought this in #frontend and consensus seems to be these images could be used by third party modules so we can't delete. And there is no mechanism for deprecating images so can only remove in a major (D12)

So will need to add those images back and a CR in this ticket about the images being removed in 12

Opened 📌 [12.x] Remove images that have been replaced in core Active for D12 to remove those images later.

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't D11 the next major?

There's already a beta out for 11 so believe we have missed the boat. Why most deprecations are now going to D12.

Don't need to delete now just need to add the deleted images back, still using the new svgs, and add a CR. Gives contrib modules time to update if they are using.

Then when 12 opens we have that one ticket as a reminder to go and delete the images.

I've restored core/misc/loading.gif and core/misc/loading-small.gif.

I did not restore the loading GIF in the starterkit theme, because by its very nature, it is not intended to be referenced, but instead forked/copied and manipulated. There's no need to ship starterkit with a file that will never be used.

And there is no mechanism for deprecating images so can only remove in a major (D12)

I get what you mean, and understand that the files can only be removed in a major upgrade, but I should clarify that the MR does include a mechanism for deprecating the old images which I think will work in the current D11 beta. Specifically:

• Make an addition to .htaccess to redirect requests to the old files to the new files.
• Ensure the new files are the exact same size and dimensions of the originals.
• Write a CR to explain that the files are deprecated in D11.0 (assuming this gets in soon) and that themes and modules should check for references to these files and update them accordingly for D12 and optionally D11.

I can't speak on the .htaccess approach but thanks for adding those back!

I did create a super simple CR to announce that these images will be removed in 12.

Thanks for the workaound but let's drop the htaccess changes, since we're keeping the old images for now it won't be an issue. Removing in the next major is enough.