[4838] in testers
Re: Program launch feedback and launch speed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Jun 19 10:22:19 2001
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:22:00 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, aui@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <20010619102159.R20603@multics.mit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <200106191256.IAA27778@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>; from beland@MIT.EDU on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:56:24AM -0400
Christopher D. Beland <beland@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 19 Jun 2001
at 08:56:24 -0400 in <200106191256.IAA27778@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>:
> It turns out that the amount of time it takes to start a given program
> is highly variable. It depends not only on the type of machine you're
> logged in on, but also what else is going on at the same time.
For what it's worth, I used aui for real for the first time recently
(not logging in as me ;-)), and I ended up starting two netscapes,
and generally wouldn't consider myself a naive user ;-).
> So the question is, what would be the best type of feedback for the
> default in the release?
>
> * Possible Solutions
OK, so, this is my dumb non-gnome hat, but one choice would be to
print a line in the console window, like "Starting programname...".
Is there a more gnome-esque [is there a better adjective] way to do that?
A one-line scrolling text widget inside the panel would also do this
admirably, I'd think.
Anyhow, just a thought.
--jhawk
