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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: program loading
From:       iglio () fub ! it (Pietro Iglio)
Date:       1999-02-24 7:40:24
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At 08.00 24/02/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
><cite>
>> Please, can anybody implement this marvellous feature as described
>> above, as soon as possible?
>> I fear, if nobody does it, other will come and the %*!& hourglass cursor
>> from M$-Windoze will hurt my eyes even on my KDE box!
>
>
>I am not trying to start anything, but it occurs to me that we make KDE
>so that we can have the power of unix under the windows interface.  I am
>a really anti-microsft person, but I think that refusing features just
>because microsoft thought of it first is wrong. They pay alot of people
>alot of money to think about it.  And for the most part, what they come up
>with is quickly accepted by users everywhere.
>
>I don't care if kde looks identical to windows (other than trademark
>problems).  The main thing I try to do with my kde is show people that my
>unix box can do every bit as much as there windows.  So what is the point
>in refusing a windows feature?
></cite>
>
>As stated before on this list several times, the metaphor of the
>hourglass cursor is: "Wait a minute, there is nothing You can do for the
>moment." This is/was true in the single task environment of M$ Win 3.x.
>But on KDE, You don't have to wait for a window popping up, You can do
>something more interesting in the meantime. The cursor gives You no
>hint, which program is involved in the ongoing activity and is therefore
>an suboptimal solution. Besides, *if* You do sth. more interesting in
>the meantime, entering an other app, the cursor has to restore his original
>shape and gives You no hint at all.
>
>During the discussion 3 better ideas has arisen,
>as far as I remember. Each of them takes more efforts to implement, but
>it's worth doing, IMHO:
>- animated icon in the task bar
>- transient window for the currently launching app
>- one window, that shows animated icons for all KDE apps
>- a blinking light in the panel

What about a different animated cursor than hourglass? For example, an 
arrow with a little hourglass in the right-bottom corner to mean: I'm doing 
something but you can still use the mouse.

-- Pietro

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