Re: [Usability] visiual feedback while starting

[David Christian Berg <david sipsolutions net>]

On Di, 2004-11-09 at 16:32 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:10, David Christian Berg wrote:
> > I had a friend of mine work on my computer yesterday, telling him, what
> > to do, via telephone. He was really confused that there was no visiual
> > feedback right away when programs (galeon (I know, it's in the window
> > list), inkscape and I think evolution it was as well as OOO, which shows
> > the splash only after a while) were starting. 
> 
> Assuming a relatively recent (post-2.2 or so) flavour of GNOME was used, there should have been cursor-change feedback, and a new entry in the window list for the starting application-- did these not happen, or were they just not noticed?

The cursor doesn't show, at least not with OOO nor with inkscape. Galeon
has the cursor, actually and the window list.
I'll answer later, I'm totally exhausted right now.

Oh, Alan, I know, that scribus is qt, but should be a windowmanager
thing, really.

David