From kde-core-devel  Tue May 08 22:27:46 2001
From: Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:27:46 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kdesktop wait cursor
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98936098405668

On Dienstag, 8. Mai 2001 14:42 Torsten Rahn wrote:

I very much agree, that splashscreens are evil (I still don't get why pixie 
even starts with a splashscreen that doesn't go away, but I never liked that 
xv gui). Especially splashscreens that only go away after a timeout (I still 
use klyx from KDE1, which starts up in half a second and continues to show 
the splashscreen on top of the GUI for 5 seconds or so).

> "beep beep" can be missunderstood as a warning-signal.
> The common way (which is used in all popular OSes like MacOS, OS/2, 
> Windoze, etc. ...) is changing the cursor ... That's what people understand
> and that's what they are used to.

There's a difference between beeps and clicks. I think the click from IE when 
hitting a link is quite nice and could be used in our case as well. The 
problem with offices and audio-impaired people remains, but having the click 
as an option would be nice (I would surely prefer that over the spinning 
wheel).

Cheers,
Carsten Pfeiffer