Re: Mouse pointer appearance problem

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

> > Another but related issue is the hour glass known from Windows or Mac
> > that gives the user visual feedabck of the main thread doing something
> > time consuming. Under GNUstep we don't have that (right?) which lets
> > the user think the application hangs if it does not react for 5 or 
> > more
> > seconds. What had to be done to realize a hour glass for GNustep?
>
> Probably you need a plugin for your X server (or window manager) that
> changes the cursor if there are no regular requests coming from a
> client that owns a window (at least this appears the mechanism to be
> on the Mac). The issue is that a hanging application can't acitvely
> change the cursor if it hangs...

Thanks! Yes, that's probably how it has to work. I am just wondering 
whether "hour glass" is such an advanced feature that only Mac, 
NeXTstep and Windows have it. I must admit that I never really worked 
with Non-GNUstep apps on Solaris/Linux/... so I have no idea whether 
this feature (hour glass) simply does not exist in the unix world 
(Solaris, Linux,...) or if it only does not work in a GNUstep/Window 
Maker environment. I almost believe/fear this is a general issue on 
Solaris, Linux,... Can anybody confirm that hour glass is available, 
e.g. in a KDE environment?

Thanks,

  Andreas