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Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progr
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters |
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Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:56:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Albinus <address@hidden> 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?
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, (continued)
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/18
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Michael Albinus, 2011/02/20
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Michael Albinus, 2011/02/20
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Tom Tromey, 2011/02/20
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Michael Albinus, 2011/02/21
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/22
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Michael Albinus, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Michael Albinus, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters,
Chong Yidong <=
- RE: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizableprogress-reporter--pulse-characters, Drew Adams, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/23
- Global indicators (was: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters), Julien Danjou, 2011/02/23
- Re: Global indicators, Chong Yidong, 2011/02/23
- RE: Global indicators, Drew Adams, 2011/02/23
- Re: Global indicators, Julien Danjou, 2011/02/24
- Re: Global indicators, Miles Bader, 2011/02/24
- Re: Global indicators, Julien Danjou, 2011/02/24
- Re: Global indicators, joakim, 2011/02/24
- Re: Global indicators, Miles Bader, 2011/02/24