Re: [opensuse] Bouncing Launch Cursor

John Andersen said the following on 05/17/2013 08:23 PM:

On 5/17/2013 5:14 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:

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Patrick Shanahan said the following on 05/17/2013 07:37 PM:

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* John Andersen [05-17-13 19:35]:

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The KDE bouncing Launch cursor has confused me since dirt. I like the idea, but it has no idea when the application is launched so it continues to blink until it times out.

Long after the app is up, and I am working in it, the icon is still bouncing. Its been this way since the Pleistocene. It seems such an obvious flaw. Why has this persisted for so many releases?

What is the bug#?

Its a configurable option, isn't it?

On, or Off, with an option to set the time out.

But the point of it is to let the user know the task is launching. It should stop when the application has finished launching, or at the very latest once the launched task receives a mouse click.

I don't see any option to get it to behave properly, and stop as soon as the launched application starts. Maybe that is unknowable in Linux?

I was under the impression that applications, KDE applications at least, signalled that they had started. I was further under the impression that the kde start-up monitored that. I've jsut done that with a few KDE applications ... games, konqeror. Yes as soon as the kde application starts the bouncing cursor stops. I can imagine that some applications might not use libraries correctly and so they don't so communicate. And LO! that is teh case. I've tried starting Freeplane and Freemind, mindmap tools that use java, started by shell scripts. In both cases the bouncing cursor persisted long after the program started. Firefox seems well behaved for a non-KDE application. -- Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas H. Huxley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org