Re: [Gnumed-devel] non-blocking document browser

[Syan Tan]

I would agree it is better optional, as blocking is less confusing
as well, so some users would still want it that way. Depends 
if the user has ADHD tendencies or not , I suppose; most docs probably
not.

On Tue Sep 12 19:14 , Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> sent:

>On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:08:47PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
>
>> IMO it is very important to be able to quickly check (or "do")  
>> something else while waiting for anything to load.
>The loading/starting the viewer is rather instantenous in
>the typical case (unless you call up that 400 MB open heart
>surgery video). The bothersome modality seems to set in
>while actually reading the document and being prompted to do
>something else in the middle of that.
>
>My best advice would be to have a couple more GNUmed
>instances open on the machine in question and switch to an
>unused one but that's not everyone's workflow.
>
>Anyways, it's somewhat configurable now.
>
>Karsten
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