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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: I miss a watch or hourglass cursor!
From:       Dan Eble <eble () cis ! ohio-state ! edu>
Date:       1997-08-20 1:03:22
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Mike Kachline wrote:

> 	I have to concur that there needs to be *some* sort of way to
> notify the user that the windowing system has acknowledged a request from
> the user. Classic case in point. Imagine firing up netscape on a 486/66
> with 16 megs of ram.... It takes a while. :)

Just put xload or xosview in your kpanel and watch the pretty graphs peak.
There's visual feedback.  If you want more, get an audio clip of someone
screaming, and wrap it in a script for starting netscape. :)

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Dan Eble (mailto:eble@cis.ohio-state.edu)
         (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~eble)

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