On Tuesday 08 May 2001 17:33, Stephen Yates wrote:

> (like
>
> >the animation when you minimize a window). This will attract the users
> >attention.
>
> Mac OS X indicates that an app is loading by making it's icon in the Dock
> bounce up and down.  How about changing/animating the icon that has been

I have seen this already and would like to see this as a kind of iconeffect 
(Like those animations in DesktopX for windows). Still this solution is too 
flashy  for defaut usage imho. 

> clicked on to launch the app?  That way no screen space would be needed to
> show that the app is loading (personally I find splash screens very

well it needs quite a lot of screenspace and big icons to avoid that it looks 
ridiculous.

> annoying), and the taskbar wouldn't have to be visible on screen.  How hard
> would it by to have the app icon spin or bounce while the app is loading? 
> Or if that is too flashy and distracting how about having a small icon such

I think so. It becomes really disturbing after starting a few hundred times 
an application. Some people just want to use their computer and 
to these people such a behaviour would look as strange as the 
Start-button on the washing-machine jumping up and down after pressing it. 

> as an hourglass appear on the app icon to indicate that it's doing
> something?

That item could vanish or could be hidden depending on the settings.
You couldn't have an Autohide-panel e.g. without loosing control over 
the startup-indicator.

One could argue now that one could force an extra icon with a busy-cursor 
shown on this desktop - but this would only provide an additional item on the 
desktop the user has to take care of. And I don't really see the advantage of 
this compared to the common busy-cursor-solution which all other GUIs share.

Greetings,
Tackat





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