On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 04:33:06PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 3/8/2017 4:08 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > 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. > > It's the old belt and suspender method. Users have got to quit using > those 'weird' window managers. It causes way too much grief.
I'm not sure displaying a busy cursor while the GUI is frozen is grief. I've always considered it correct behavior, to be honest, regardless of the presence or absence of a weird window manager. The busy cursor has been used for _years_ to indicate a GUI that cannot be interacted with, so users expect it - not displaying it sends conflicting messages; you are saying by the absence of such a standard item that the GUI is ready to use. > I'm > surprised that a single library load takes long enough to need a busy > cursor but I'm not opposed to the patch. Does the progress bar in > wxWidgets have a continuous mode? That doesn't solve the hidden > progress window issue though. There is a continuous mode, though I'm not sure what the benefit of using it would be, and it's a bit strange (you have to "poke" it pretty continuously or it freezes). I wouldn't use it. I'm not sure why library loading got so slow suddenly. I'd profile it but I don't have time. > > > > > > > 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. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >>> Post to : [email protected] > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
