Re: [Usability]Re: toolbar issues

[Jon Kåre Hellan <hellan acm org>]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:47, David Moles wrote:
> Possibly this is crack, but: Does Nautilus need a throbber at all?
> Shouldn't local file-viewing operations complete instantaneously? (Yeah,
> I know they *don't*, but *shouldn't* they?)

Unless I'm mistaken (which happens frequently), the Nautilus throbber
isn't just a progress indicator. It's an *out of process* progress
indicator, to give the user the illusion that progress is being made,
even when it isn't :-).

Jon Kåre

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