From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:56:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyfuh3l3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwrf87f3.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:46:40 +0100")
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> I'm waiting, whether there is resistance to that change (Stefan?
> Chong?). If there is no opposition, I'll install the patch next
> weekend in the trunk.
I'm dubious about the idea. The mode-line is supposed to show
information about one window, while the progress-reporter is a global
indicator, so conceptually it's not a good fit.
What do we do if the user switches windows while the progress reporter
is spinning? Does the current window take over the spinning? Or do
inactive mode-lines spin too? (That would be annoying.)
Global indicators, especially transient ones, ought to use the echo
area.
Using the background of the echo area as a progress bar would be nice,
but that may need some redisplay engine changes. (It won't be annoying
if the color changes are muted enough, and I believe there are many GUI
applications that do something similar.)
If that's too hard, how about reserving the first character in the echo
area for a spinner instead?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-23 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-02-17 12:14 ` auth-source-search: annoying messages Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 12:30 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 13:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 16:06 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 16:50 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters (was: auth-source-search: annoying messages) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 21:43 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Michael Albinus
2011-02-18 14:47 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-18 20:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-20 11:29 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-20 11:33 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-20 18:37 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-21 18:54 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-22 17:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 8:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-23 8:46 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-23 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 15:59 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-23 16:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 20:56 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-02-23 21:28 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizableprogress-reporter--pulse-characters Drew Adams
2011-02-23 21:35 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 21:48 ` Global indicators (was: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters) Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 0:05 ` Global indicators Chong Yidong
2011-02-24 0:13 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-24 11:02 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 11:12 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-24 11:42 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 12:56 ` joakim
2011-02-25 2:41 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-24 12:37 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-24 13:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 16:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 21:53 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-24 16:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 22:04 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-24 0:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 1:27 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizableprogress-reporter--pulse-characters Drew Adams
2011-02-24 2:01 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Chong Yidong
2011-02-24 3:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-24 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-24 18:05 ` Global indicators (was: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 19:56 ` Global indicators Michael Albinus
2011-03-01 18:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-28 18:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 13:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25 13:56 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 20:17 ` auth-source-search: annoying messages Stefan Monnier
2011-02-18 20:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 22:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-18 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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