Re: [jirka 5z com: Re: KDE 2.0 impressions]

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:58:55AM -0800, George wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 06:00:24PM +0000, Iain wrote:
> > > Nice stuff: the "now loading" indicator in the task bar. I wonder
> > > whether it only works when loading KDE applications? We should try to
> > > cobble up something similar...
> > 
> > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~altic/projects/xalf/
> > 
> > does exactly that I think.
> > The author or someone keeps asking can it be added to the main core get it packaged somehow
> > but I've never seen any response from people.
> 
> xalf is bad and evil.  It will only check for ANY window mapped and be happy
> after this.  This makes the indicator somewhat useless.  If you launch
> multiple things or are doing something else, it will just report the app
> being loaded before it actually is.

Sorry, I was reading the code completely wrong.  Yes xalf actually works the
correct way.  (well maybe last time I looked at it it was evil, now it's
definately ok (still an evil hack, but it does work).

So, could this maybe go into 1.4?

George

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