Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Gnome-vfs support for the static image loading

[PUYDT Julien <julien puydt laposte net>]

On jeu, 2004-04-08 at 13:52, Miguel Rodríguez Pérez wrote: 
> True..., unless the user selects a high quality image of his/her face
> from his/her latest and grates 10 Mpixels digital camera. GnomeMeeting
> will just load the image and scale it to appropriate dimensions. If the
> loading was not async and the user is his ignorance selected such an
> image GM would block for a potentially long time and the user would
> think it has crashed.
> 
> In other words, is there any reason to not load the image asynchronously
> (that is not simplicity)?

Indeed. Always assume the user will do much worse than the stupidest
thing you can imagine. Perhaps the image will be saved on a remote
floppy disk, and the link will be SLIP... ;-)

Snark