When Nautilus launches an application (by double-clicking on the app's icon, or
using an Open With menu or button, or opening a document with an external app)
it would be nice to provide some sort of feedback such as a busy cursor or a
special "loading" item in the task list applet until the application displays
it's first window.

One relatively easy way to do this is to use the `xalf' program to launch
applications when available. Another option would be to implement something like
this directly inside Nautilus, but that would require considerably more work.



------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2000-12-20 13:39:17 ----

Well, let's decide on an approach here, figure out what it will cost us, and
then turn this into a for real bug. ;)  Seriously, this is a good idea.  Who
should make this evaluation about the user-visible behavior first?  Arlo?




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:45 -------