[4763] in testers
Re: 9.0.6: Menu and launching-related issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Tue Jun 12 11:00:55 2001
Message-Id: <200106121500.LAA09849@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, beland@MIT.EDU
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Message from Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
received Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:09:33 -0400
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:00:31 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>> I would seriously consider enabling a splashscreen for menu items
>> that take longer than two seconds to show signs of some activity on
>> the slowest machines.
>
>From a technical perspective, if the f_l's want to experiment with
>this for particular commands, I think the best way to do it is to
>change the desktop entry to execute something like:
>
> NO_XALF xalf --splash command
>
>(--splash can also be -s.)
Well, the splashscreen says "Starting foo" where foo is the first part
of the command. So for example, I get "Starting gathrun" for a command
like "gathrun matlab" which doesn't seem likely to help much. (There
doesn't seem to be a man page for xalf, BTW.)
Beland, what sort of machine are you running on, and do you have a list
of too-slow apps so we can think more about this, keeping in mind that
AUI is primarily aimed at users on cluster machines?
--Abby
