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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

The busy cursor tells the user that he is not expected to be able to
do anything sensible with the cursor other than moving it around for
his own amusement.

2017-03-08 22:08 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> That's why I submitted such a trivial patch to the list first, I figured
> someone would say something ;)
>
> It does make sense to me, because the GUI is blocked. The busy cursor
> says to me "yes, the GUI is supposed to be blocked right now, it's not
> frozen". Even with a progress bar, it can seem unresponsive -
> particularly if 1) the progress bar ends up obscured, as can happen with
> 'weird' window managers sometimes, or 2) if a single library takes a
> particularly long time to load, which I'm sure will only get worse if we
> eventually allow loading them over the internet like for footprint libs.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:55:10PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Does showing a progress dialog and a busy cursor at the same time make
>> sense?
>>
>> On 3/8/2017 3:36 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This patch enables display of the "busy" cursor while schematic
>> > libraries are being loaded. Tested on Linux, Windows 10, and macOS
>> > 10.12.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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