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

[Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas Mailhot email enst fr>]

Le jeu, 04 jan 2001 22:30:43, Miles Lane a écrit :

> I never said the pointer should be preempted.  I said it
> could be modified to display an hourglass.  This does mean
> that the mouse should become unusable while the hourglass
> is displayed.  Like I said, it could be used a method to
> simply inform the user that a program is launching and
> that the process hasn't completed yet.  

So what do you do if your app dies at launch time or stalls
for minutes because (for example) no network interface was
found ?

You've just locked all the user environment.

Like I wrote, you've got a whole screen to give the user
feedback, no need to take out the mouse cursor. And an app
can wait for very different reasons, there's no need at all
to assume no other app should be launched / used meanwhile
to speed up the launch.

-- 
Nicolas