On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Jorge Ferrer Zarzuela wrote: > I just wanted to say that I completely agree with you. Modifying the icon > the user has clicked to launch an application is the best feedback you can > give him/her. I wouldn't substitute the icon but just add an (animated) > hourglass to it. I like this idea a lot, and it offers opportunities for extending the functionality of icons - perhaps using the almost universal play/pause/stop symbols common on CD players/tape recorders etc. to indicate an application's state via the icon (I've attached some badly drawn mock-ups). This would particularly help where an app was running on a different desktop or workspace to its icon. Click the icon -> a pause symbol is overlaid whilst it starts, when ready it becomes a play symbol. If the program fails, or requires attention from the user it becomes a stop symbol. > There are some problems with this solution though, such as what happens > when the user launches an application from the foot menu, but I really > believe that this can be solved with a bit of imagination. I think this would work pretty well with the icons in the foot menu too, making the foot menu into a taskbar which doesn't require endless space when lots of things are going on. > By the way, most of this is already done in Xalf, which as you may know > will be included in GNOME 1.4. But I believe we can improve it even more. Its already in glib-1.2.11 I think :) Mike -- Mike Newman, Weston-super-Mare, UK | http://www.gtnorthern.demon.co.uk "I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.", Norman Mailer
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