Re: Update: 2.2 Proposed Modules List

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Havoc Pennington">

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:36:36PM -0500, Dave Bordoley wrote: 
> > 
> > If metacity sets the cursor to a busy cursors does this effectively
> > prevent the user from interacting with other parts of the desktop while
> > an app is loading? or will it only be a busy cursor when the loading app
> > is selected from the window list? 
> 
> It can work various ways, I haven't really thought it through.  Let me
> know what you think.

Windows has its handy application-launching-cursor, which is a normal cursor
with an (optionally animated) hourglass tacked on. So you can clicky-clicky
and know there is something important going on at the same time too.

- Jeff

-- 
    "...and did you know that Twisties have real cheese in them?" - Dave    
        "I didn't even think they had real twists in them!" - Andrew