Changing the beachball animation

[Karmashock]

Probably the most intrusive graphical element in WM is the beachball. It gets right in the middle of the screen, does it's little dance, on top of everything, and won't go away until the loading is done.



That's fine. I understand it's purpose and it's a good thing. But it's too intrusive to not be modded.



I'm guessing that somewhere there's a tiny gif file or something that controls this... Anyone know where this image data is?... and if it's embedded in some bigger file... how to implant something else into it?


I'm willing to put a few hours to do this...