Re: gmc & cursors

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:18:56AM -0600 +++
Harold Campbell e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > 
> > >  The other thing which is a small thing but I think would improve things
> > >  is to use an hourglass (or equivalent) cursor while programs are
> > >  loading.  I am constantly looking down at my hard drive light to see
> > >  whether the program is actually loading.  Some sort of visual feedback
> > >  would be of great benefit.
> > 
> > To do this right, you need notification from the programs.  To do it
> > hackishly, you need cooperation from the window manager.
> > 
> >   Federico
> 
> Couldn't it be slipped into the gnome libraries? Just stop the animation
> when the first window is mapped. Doesn't do anything for non gnome apps,
> but you can't have everything.

This really isn't something Gnome should do. It's not the task of a
desktop environment. And it doesn't provide any functionality in my
book.

It would be much more useful to show the command executed in some
status line and then, subsequently, any output the application
produces. I suppose this could be implemented as a panel applet...
"Startup Monitor" or such.

mawa
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