On 31 January 2013 09:33, Angel Ezquerra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 29 January 2013 16:47, Angel Ezquerra <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> A few days ago Keegan Witt who makes the Meld for windows installer >>> gave me a 1.7.0 based installer. This worked well but I noticed that >>> compared to 1.6.1 it seems to show a lot of "waiting cursors". >>> >>> What I mean by this is that when you move the cursor over some (many) >>> of the elements of the GUI the cursor changes from the regular windows >>> arrow cursor to the "blue spinning circle" "waiting" cursor. >>> >>> Is that normal? >> >> Not as far as I know. We don't explicitly set cursors anywhere, so >> that's presumably GTK on Windows deciding to set the cursor? Is this >> actually accompanied by slowness or anything diagnosable? >> >> cheers, >> Kai > > I got a little more info on this. If I run meld using python.exe I do > not get these "waiting cursors". I only get them if I use pythonw.exe > to run meld.
Until very recently, Meld didn't run at all under pythonw. I have no idea why python and pythonw would behave differently though... we don't do anything different other than redirecting stderr and stdout to null for pythonw. Feel free to file a bug of course. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
