2017-03-08 22:33 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: > 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 > 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. >
I like the non-continous mode. Slow? I have noticed that the library loading slowness appeared with the new IO manager thing. Although I don't have any proff to quanify that. >> >> >> 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
