Re: [Usability]operations during loadup

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 01:31, Jacob Perkins wrote:
> For large key-rings, seahorse can take a little while to load all of the
> keys. Operations *could* be performed during this time, but they will of
> course take longer to complete.
> So my question is, should users be able to do an operation while keys
> are still being loaded?

If any sort of useful operation can be performed while other things are
loading, then I vote "yes".

> If not, what is the best way to stop this from happening? Disabling the
> main window, or at least the buttons/menus?

That's another good reason for my "yes" vote, it means I don't have to
think about horrible things like this :)  

If you did go this way, then yes, I think you'd just have to disable all
the buttons and menus that applied to the current-loading keyring, and
to the currently-selected key.  Controls that don't depend on what's
currently loading, like Edit->Preferences or Help->About, should still
remain enabled if possible though.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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