Animated logo

What it is

The Omniscio logo (the glowing orb) swirls with the same animation the website uses. It appears wherever the logo greets you: in the title bar at the top of the app, in the Quick Launch header, on the loading card while Omniscio starts, on the closing overlay while Omniscio shuts down or restarts, and in the small downloader the website's Download button hands out. It is decoration only: it never changes what the logo does, and switching it off shows exactly the still logo Omniscio had before.

Where to find it

• Title bar: the logo at the top-left, which is also the button that opens your inbox.
• Quick Launch: the logo in the header of the Quick Launch window.
• Loading card: the small window that shows while Omniscio starts up.
• Closing overlay: the full-screen good-bye card that shows for about a second while Omniscio shuts down or restarts — the same orb at the other end of the app's life.
• Downloader: the orb at the top of the website's Windows downloader.
• The switch: right-click the title-bar logo and untick Animated logo, or open Settings → Appearance → Motion and turn off Animated logo. Both flip the same setting.

How it behaves

• Only while you are using the window. In the title bar and Quick Launch the orb starts still and begins swirling on your first mouse move, click, key press or touch. It stops the moment the window goes into the background or is minimized, and after two minutes with no input; it picks up again on your next input.
• On the loading card, it swirls while the app loads. The card itself appears exactly as fast as before: it shows the still logo first and switches to the swirl once the animation is ready.
• On the closing overlay, it swirls for the whole second the card is up, whether or not you were just using the window — the card is a quick good-bye, so it is always alive.
• In the downloader, it swirls while the window is open and holds still when the window is minimized.
• Less motion always wins. If your computer is set to reduce motion, Motion & Polish is switched off, or Low Power Mode is on, every logo in the app stays still even with the switch on. The downloader follows Windows' own Show animations in Windows setting.
• Turning it off is instant, with no restart. The next loading card follows your choice too.
• The browser version of Omniscio always shows the still logo.
• It is light. While it plays it uses a small slice of one processor core; when it rests it uses nothing. If an animation file is missing or cannot play, you simply see the still logo.

For agents

• Setting key: animatedLogo (boolean, default true), patchable over the CLI: PATCH /settings/animatedLogo.
• One code switch turns every in-app logo still for everyone and hides both switches: ANIMATED_LOGO_ENABLED in src/shared/animated-logo.ts. The downloader's twin is ANIMATED_ORB in native/win/bootstrap-installer.rs (takes effect on its next rebuild).
• In-app logo: src/renderer/src/components/ui/AnimatedLogo.tsx (plays via useWindowActive + useRecentUserInput; the swirlWhileMounted prop drops that in-use gate for a one-shot moment that is only on screen while it matters — the shutdown overlay); loading card: src/main/services/splash/splash-swirl.ts + __amcSplashSwirl in splash-html-builder.ts; right-click row: ToolbarContextMenu.tsx.
• Animation files: src/renderer/public/omniscio-orb-swirl.webm (96 px, 12 fps), resources/amc-logo-splash-swirl.webm (128 px), native/win/bootstrap-orb-frames.jpg + bootstrap-orb-alpha.png (downloader).
• Rules and the tests that enforce them: .claude/memory/contracts/animated-logo-contract.md.

Related

• low-power-mode.md — the mode that quiets the other window and toolbar effects alongside the logo.
• motion-polish.md — the motion settings the logo animation sits among.
• settings/appearance.md — the Appearance settings reference, where the Animated logo switch lives with the rest of the motion settings.