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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Issues about busy cursor
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-29 9:18:40
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#if Michael Goffioul

> It's not really _wrong_, but somewhat confusing. In LAN environment with medium
> print jobs, the job processing time is really short, such that processing is 
> already finished when kjobviewer starts, it then exits immediately without 
> showing anything, and the user doesn't know about it. Now you get this busy 
> cursor without any other visual result, and that can be confusing.

Perhaps then kjobviewer should show jobs that are finished too. When
it only has finished jobs to show, it could set a timer. Upon timeout,
it can hide itself. That way the user gets feedback.

Rik

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