----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Stanaland" <henryst@MIT.EDU>
To: <kde-look@kde.org>
Sent: 09 May 2001 22:33
Subject: Re: kdesktop wait cursor


>
>
> I also was thinking that these animated icons wouldn't solve
> the problem of opening apps from the menu...does anybody
> have any ideas?  Just off the top of my head I'll throw some
> out:
>
> *Leave the menu open for a second while the icon jumps up
> and down (or whatever) then close it.
>
> *If you click on an application in the kmenu, perhaps the gear
> behind the K could spin.
>             -problem:  not specific enough if you open multiple
>                                menu items simultaneously
>
> Then again, I just realized I'm being kind of stupid because
> there's much less ambiguity with the menu(since it's single
> click).
>
> Oh, yeah besides the "flashy" stuff being usefull, you must not
> forget that flash is a good way to gain converts(as that is what
> they first noticed)....but not too flashy that it's a distraction.
>
> -Henry
>

Something that BeOS does when you double-click an icon is a small ractangle
zooms out to roughly the size of the icon very quickly.  It lets me know
whether I've actually double-clicked an icon or not.

For menu's, the item could flash briefly before going away as in MacOS or
BeOS.


- Tomasz