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When a user clicks on an program icon, or some other thing that requirs user
feedback then there should be some sort of feedback that Nautilus is doing
something with that request.  Traditionally, GUIs have used cursor to indicate
that.  You're mileage may vary.  You might even want to have the window manager
to deal with this problem by requesting it to create a cursor mask.

Here is what I think are the operations that needs user feedback:

o Double clicking on a program icon
o Busy indications this could be:
   -waiting on a view
   -loading a component
    any system call that could block (ie RPC stuff, gui stuff)
 
I can't think of any more at the moment.  Basically, if you think a user might
want to know when Nautilus is busy doing something.

It's important to implement.  On the panel, my wife will always click on the
Netscape icon multiple times because to her nothing is happening and she ends up
bringing the box to it's machine becuase she launched 15 netscapes in teh space
of 5 seconds.  Imagine a similar situation with Nautilus when a person clicks on
a program icon a similiar manner.

	sri

* REPRODUCIBLE: Always

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

Just double-click/click on any icon to make it run.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 19:55:53 ----

Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com



------- Additional Comments From andy@eazel.com 2000-11-27 11:16:12 ----

I completely agree that this is important.  I'm not sure that the busy cursor is
the best way to give the feedback, though, since the cursor belongs to the
window it's over.  Perhaps we can animate the icon itself to show it's being
worked on.



------- Additional Comments From sri@aracnet.com 2000-11-28 21:31:31 ----

Andy,

That's an interesting thought.  Animating the icon would give the necessary 
feedback for programs.  What about loading a new view or something like that?
Another thought could be to do what MSN messenger does, a pop up on the panel 
that says it's running a program.  Does it work for parallelized loading.    
I'd love to see something new than established desktops.

  sri




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:41 -------