Re: [Usability]Re: toolbar issues

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 09:06, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> I've thought about this before...I think it does cuz even on local
> drives loading can be slow and the throbber does supply information to
> the user that the app is doing something and not just locked up in
> obscurity....The main problem as you say are networked filesystems which
> can be considerably slower....

Seems like the first one is the job of things like an hourglass
cursor, though. I mean, you could make the argument that any
application that does anything that doesn't complete instantly
needs a throbber.