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bug#51490: Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs w
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#51490: Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs window |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 10:59:21 -0700 |
Severity: wishlist
(This is a follow-up to Bug#19776.)
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>> I was talking about showing something in the actual Emacs window, not
>> just changing the mouse pointer. The mouse pointer can change also when
>> some program has just crashed, so users won't necessarily take this as a
>> sign that "everything is okay, just give us a minute and we'll be back".
>
> And there's no hourglass pointer in terminal Emacs (which apparently is
> almost as popular as GUI Emacs for some reason), so perhaps it's worth
> having a spinning thing somewhere. In the mode line, for instance.
>
> However, if we want that, perhaps it shouldn't be tied to
> with-delayed-message, but work exactly like the hourglass -- i.e., start
> spinning whenever Emacs is busy for a while.
>
> I'm not at all sure whether there'd be any negative repercussions to
> spinning a glyph in the mode line area (for instance -- what about if
> you're running over a slow ssh connection?), but perhaps it's worth
> exploring and see how goes?
Let's continue discussing this as a new bug.
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, (continued)
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/24
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/24
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/24
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/24
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/24
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/29
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/29
- bug#51490: Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs window,
Stefan Kangas <=
- bug#51490: Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs window, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/30
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Stefan Monnier, 2021/10/24
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/24
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Andreas Schwab, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Stefan Monnier, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Andreas Schwab, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/25
- bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/25