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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: program loading
From:       David Sweet <dsweet () chaos ! umd ! edu>
Date:       1999-02-24 16:09:30
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On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Stefan Taferner wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, David Sweet wrote:
>> I'm in the process of coding a rough version of a transient-window
>> feedback indicator for program launching
>[...]
>> Anyway, so far I have a class, KAppWait, which uses xtoolkit's algorithm to
>> launch an app and emit a signal when then next window maps.  I've put it at
>> http://www.chaos.umd.edu/~dsweet/klaunch.tar.gz, with a test program which
>> uses KAppWait to launch emacs, for anyone who's interested in playing with it.
>
>Maybe I missed some mails, but what's wrong with the way kpanel does it
>right now?  (I mean the blinking led)
>
>Please, whatever interface you build, make it so that there is exactly one
>function that only expects the command and does the rest itself.
>
>As far as I understand things, kpanel monitors the CPU usage of the starting
>process to determine when it is done, right?  IMO a very elegant solution.
>
>--Stefan

I hadn't realized that the light was implemented (I don't see on my kpanel,
but perhaps mine's too old.)  I'll just play with the transient window then.

Dave

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