Re: [Usability]Re: toolbar issues

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

OK, well the hourglass cursor would be nice, but that means that this
proposal is star trek future since application feedback would need to be
added to nautilus.

personally i think the hour glass cursor is should be used for launch
feedback(opening apps from the desktop or the panel). I think the
throbber should be used for loading of inline views feedback.

dave

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 13:38, David Moles wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 09:06, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > I've thought about this before...I think it does cuz even on local
> > drives loading can be slow and the throbber does supply information to
> > the user that the app is doing something and not just locked up in
> > obscurity....The main problem as you say are networked filesystems which
> > can be considerably slower....
> 
> Seems like the first one is the job of things like an hourglass
> cursor, though. I mean, you could make the argument that any
> application that does anything that doesn't complete instantly
> needs a throbber.