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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Making koApplication inherits KUniqueApplication
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2005-10-26 7:57:54
Message-ID: 200510260957.57245.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:25, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:57, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:00, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > Ah, forgot that use case.  Then what I should be saying is: single
> > > document per process.
> >
> > But to make clear what's happening -- why a user cannot access the second
> > window of one document when in the first something lengthy happens, while
> > they can work on the first window of another document when something
> > lenghty hapens in the first document -- we'd need some clear visual hint
> > about which windows go with one document. The document name in the
> > titlebar doesn't cut it here... This is a potentional minefield of
> > usability issues.
>
> Hmm, can't you run the lengthy operation in another thread, as long as it
> doesn't touch the GUI?

That's what I'm trying to do -- but I haven't solved it in a generic way yet. 
Besides, the second view on the same document would still be inaccessible 
when the thread is running.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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