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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kdesktop wait cursor
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       2001-05-08 12:09:31
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Dne út 8. kvìten 2001 13:31 Ralf Nolden napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> out of experience (from this internet cafe here running with KDE 2.1.1)
> the users are *not* capable of understanding that starting applications
> may take some time. The result is that they click on the konqueror or
> netscape icon 5 or more times which slows down the machines (diskless
> clients) even more. So what is needed besides the taskbar start
> notification is to also set the cursor to wait cursor. A new hourglass
> cursor with a pointer a la windoze would be the best option, this one
> can be black and white so this shouldn't be a problem to do actually.
> But changing the cursor is *very* crucial.
>
> Ralf

 This is going to be a little problem, since AFAIK all widgets may specify 
their cursor and it can't be globally overriden. And I don't think that 
changing the cursor is the only and best way of doing it. It can be easily 
made that you get a little splashscreen for every app as a startup 
notification, or you can even write an app that will do 'beep beep' everytime 
you start Konqy or Netscape.
 Just writing an applet which would 
    connectDCOPSignal(0, 0, 
"clientStarted(QString,QString,pid_t,QString,bool,int)",
"clientStarted(QString,QString,pid_t,QString,bool,int)", false);
and do whatever you want in its clientStarted() should be enough for now. But 
if you want to make any changes, please tell me. I'm currently rewriting the 
code a bit ( see my other mails ).

 Lubos Lunak
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