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Re: "Loading"
From: |
Dave Abrahams |
Subject: |
Re: "Loading" |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:29:03 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (darwin) |
on Thu Mar 15 2012, Tassilo Horn <tassilo-AT-member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> The modeline is designed to provide indications to the user. I
>>> believe, it is the natural place for showing unfinished network
>>> activities.
>>>
>>> If it cannot be a spinning char due to the permanent refresh, than it
>>> might be some coloured text, as running processes show already.
>>
>> Yeah... but of course I'm looking at three modelines in my frame right
>> now. The problem of having no central place to display global state
>> is well known around here, though. Maybe just use the modeline of the
>> leftmost window immediately above the minibuffer?
>
> Why is that a "global state"? I mean, the running process is associated
> with a buffer (e.g., a tramp buffer visiting a remote file, or a gnus
> article buffer that has spawned several download processes), so I'd
> expect the process activity indicator in the mode line of exactly that
> buffer, no?
In this case, maybe. In the general case, there are processes with
no visible buffer or any obvious association.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
- Re: "Loading", (continued)
- Re: "Loading", Tassilo Horn, 2012/03/14
- 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 <=
- Re: "Loading", Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/03/15
- Re: "Loading", Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/03/15
- Re: "Loading", Ted Zlatanov, 2012/03/19
- Re: "Loading", Michael Albinus, 2012/03/15
Re: "Loading", Eli Zaretskii, 2012/03/14