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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: program loading
From:       Lars Knoll <knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-02-24 10:32:36
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On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pietro Iglio wrote:
>At 08.00 24/02/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>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.

Why does everybody wan't to stick with this (IMO) stupid hourglass 
cursor (in whatever form...)? I don't like the idea of changing the cursor, when
you click on something. It's one of M$ bad ideas. The cursor has no
relation to the app I want to start, and it sort of prevents me from starting
two apps simultaneously, since I wouldn't get a feedback for the second app...
(since the cursor can only change once).  I'd prefer the idea of overlaying
something on the clicked icon (and I like Waldos idea of the turning wheel the
best, because it's known from and consistent with kfm and inuitive).

Cheers,
Lars

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