Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hi
One thing that Suse might like to put on there wish list is, the problem when you click onto something, and you do not hear the hard drive, and you think nothing has happened, and you click again ..... and again THEN you can guess the rest (I like the spinning gear in the folders)
But as I write this is it all a Suse problem, Could the program when it runs bring up a alert message saying "OK OK the program is starting and you clicked on it again and again...., do you wish to load this program ten times (just joking)
Well you cannot blame Suse for this... The single must irritating thing about X11 Desktops is that few of them give you much (or any) visual clue that some action is being taken in response to your clicking. And failures don;t usually surface in the desktop but on the console recording X messages..
Quite why this has come about I don't know, but it a real pain. Netscape of course is a classic problem, since it guzzles as much of every resource it can find it takes an age to start up. But some of the KDE apps are just as bad...
How about a little turning hourglass a la Windows .. hee hee (down boys and girls, don;t bite now..)
Cliff
KDE2 now shows that a program is loading once you click it. Nice added feature. You can also force the windows style double click mode if you want. -- Mark Hounschell markh@compro.net