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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: visibility?
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       2000-03-09 5:38:22
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Prasanth Kumar wrote:

> How about this idea for feedback while a program is loading...
> Have the wheel on the KDE menu in the toolbar spin while a program is
> loading.

Looks like it's have to be said again: the problem is not WHAT to do while
the program is loading, the problem is that there is no way to know if the
program is loading!

> 
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> kumar1@home.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:uwe@uwix.alt.na]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 4:08 AM
> To: kde-devel@kde.org
> Subject: RE: visibility?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> 
> > If we're talking about Kicker - how about this simple idea (I did this
> idea
> > long time ago on my Atari ST back then)
> >
> > A simple LED which changes it colours:
> >
> > Bright Red (means) Loading..
> > Dark Red (doing nothing) ... Machine is idle..
> > Yellow - Segmentation fault..
> 
> No feedback must depend on colours only. There are way too many
> colourblind people out there.
> 
> Uwe
> 
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> 
> 

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