Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus user testing at MIT

[Greg Stein <gstein lyra org>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 06:36:02PM +0100, Blad, John Erling wrote:
> > Why is it that we can't change the way our pointer looks? 
> 
> You can do it Windoze-like.. Just grab the pointer!
> Okey, I know.. ;)
> 
> Really it isn't that hard but pointershapes should follow
> the windows, not what some more or less well defined
> desktop state.

Yup. It would suck if I was opening an app that took a really long time.
While the app was opening, I might want to go and work in another window.
Tweak the pointer on me, and I'd be a bit peeved :-)

The KDE approach, a spinning icon in the taskbar, sounds just right.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/