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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: kdesktop wait cursor
From:       Hylton Clarke <ebucks13 () ebucks ! com>
Date:       2001-05-09 8:41:04
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Sean Pecor wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 May 2001 11:33, Stephen Yates wrote:
> > >I don't like this at all. There must be a better way to make it clear to
> > > the user that the application is starting up. How about a kind of
> > > titlebar with the name of the started application which will appear when
> > > you clicked the button. After a short period this titlebar then 'docks'
> > > into the taskbar
>
> I think the best solution is toggle a "single task" environment, that is
> turned on by administrators (like the person from the Internet Cafe). When
> enabled, the entire screen would gray 50% with a big "Please Wait,
> Loading..." text in the middle. Like a ScreenSaver of some sort that is
> started when a program icon is clicked and stopped when the program is
> available for input. This would be VERY HELPFUL for many beginners.

Again, you are catering for the beginner. That would piss me off no end, if I
had no access to my screen while waiting for something to load. The idea of
having an hour glass linked to the mouse pointer works fine for me. All you need
to do besides some sort of visual feedback that the application is loading, is
simply to lock all instances of the icon, whether it be in the menu or desktop,
so that even if the icon is clicked again, it will not load a second time.
Visual feedback is incredibly important, even to the computer literate, but an
all encompassing screen message would be something hollywood would do for The
Net: Part 2 :)

>
>
> Sean.
>
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Hylton Clarke
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