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Re: "Loading"
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: "Loading" |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:33:39 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>> I believe it would be a good thing, if running asynchronous
>> operations are made visible consistently in Emacs. Maybe we could
>> agree on the same function?
>
> In messages with images, there's usually more than one. Some may be
> downloading, some may have failed and some may not be downloading at
> all. I was thinking that it would make sense to "spin" the particular
> images that are in the process of downloading to give the user an
> obvious feedback on what's happening with each particular image.
>
> However, I'm not absolutely sure that's necessary. The three
> categories could be distinguished otherwise. If the downloading
> fails, perhaps a "broken image" image could be shown instead, and for
> the images that aren't going to be downloaded, perhaps some other icon
> could be shown.
Maybe some spinner plus number of active/aborted/skipped processes,
e.g., [\ (2/1/0)]?
> Spinning in the buffer itself may be unnecessarily distracting.
And it would be likely to break something. Remember when you introduced
the seconds-counting Date header in gnus article mode and sometimes
copying a region would copy from Date header to mark instead of from
mark to point?
Bye,
Tassilo
- "Loading", Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/03/13
- Re: "Loading", Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/03/14
- Re: "Loading",
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: "Loading", Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/03/14
- Re: "Loading", Michael Albinus, 2012/03/14
- Re: "Loading", Dave Abrahams, 2012/03/14
- Re: "Loading", Michael Albinus, 2012/03/15
- Re: "Loading", Dave Abrahams, 2012/03/15
- Re: "Loading", Michael Albinus, 2012/03/15
- Re: "Loading", Dave Abrahams, 2012/03/15
- Re: "Loading", Tassilo Horn, 2012/03/15
- Re: "Loading", Michael Albinus, 2012/03/15
- Re: "Loading", Dave Abrahams, 2012/03/15