Re: [Usability]Hourglass needed

[Mark Cooke <segfault blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 22:48, Dave Lyon wrote:
> My wife (who reminds me every day that I made her switch to Linux) has
> had trouble launching apps (esp. from the desktop since there's no menu
> that vanishes once she clicks) because there is no visual cue that the
> program is loading, so she ends up starting about 5 instances of them.
> It's just a suggestion, but it might be helpful to flash a mini-icon of
> the app you've launched next to the cursor arrow to show that you've
> started a program. Just a suggestion.

Xalf is responsable for this baby.
There was talk of it for Gnome-2, but I cannot seem to find it, yet it
works fine on 1.4 (just would be great if you could theme the flashing
symbols, as they are annoying and so small you cannot see them or so
huge that it just gets silly).

Mark


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