Re: Version 1.7.0 shows a lot of "waiting cursors" on windows

[Angel Ezquerra <angel ezquerra gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 29 January 2013 16:47, Angel Ezquerra <angel ezquerra gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A few days ago Keegan Witt who makes the Meld for windows installer
>> gave me a 1.7.0 based installer. This worked well but I noticed that
>> compared to 1.6.1 it seems to show a lot of "waiting cursors".
>>
>> What I mean by this is that when you move the cursor over some (many)
>> of the elements of the GUI the cursor changes from the regular windows
>> arrow cursor to the "blue spinning circle" "waiting" cursor.
>>
>> Is that normal?
>
> Not as far as I know. We don't explicitly set cursors anywhere, so
> that's presumably GTK on Windows deciding to set the cursor? Is this
> actually accompanied by slowness or anything diagnosable?
>
> cheers,
> Kai

I got a little more info on this. If I run meld using python.exe I do
not get these "waiting cursors". I only get them if I use pythonw.exe
to run meld.

Cheers,

Angel