Ticket #1638 (closed enhancement: fixed)
Replace current progress bar with asterisk progress wheel
| Reported by: | will | Owned by: | raster |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | Om2008.8 |
| Component: | E - Illume | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | must have |
| Cc: | testing@… | Blocked By: | |
| Blocking: | Estimated Completion (week): | ||
| HasPatchForReview: | PatchReviewResult: | ||
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Description
We want to see the current progress bar used for launching applications to be replaced with a progress wheel in the center of the screen. Idea is to dim out background and rotate an asterisk.
Please see screenshot for details.
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comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 5 years ago by raster
simple version: can't do it. no compositing. (i can go into the technical nastiness of how it possibly can be done with a fair bit of work... but it would be a really ugly hack).
i need to repeat this:
NO TRANSLUCENCY POSSIBLE BETWEEN WINDOWS.
unless you want the wheel below application windows... and below the top bar. i can do it within the canvas.
please... august 8 is coming. don't add new things to do now. the current code pops up (slides in) a window at the bottom of the screen allowing the rest of the screen still to be used while it's busy. it's simple and works. if u want a different icon in that bar - ok.
either that or can you live with this being UNDER windows and UNDER the top-bar?
comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 5 years ago by will
Replying to raster:
NO TRANSLUCENCY POSSIBLE BETWEEN WINDOWS.
aren't we doing this when we boot / shut down?
please... august 8 is coming. don't add new things to do now. the current code pops up (slides in) a window at the bottom of the screen allowing the rest of the screen still to be used while it's busy. it's simple and works. if u want a different icon in that bar - ok.
either that or can you live with this being UNDER windows and UNDER the top-bar?
let me see what that looks like..
will get back on this.
comment:3 follow-up: ↓ 4 Changed 5 years ago by raster
when we boot and shut down we are not running X. no windowing system at all - no separate windows. its just exquisite writing the the dumb framebuffer device.
btw - a window is a specific entity in x - a "Rectangle" that you can draw to. the top shelf, the "starting app...x" and a bunch of things in E are windows. every application that runs opens a window. dialogs are windows. thats what you can't to translucency between. a window defines a boundary between the control of one thing and another of that part of the screen.
comment:4 in reply to: ↑ 3 Changed 5 years ago by will
Replying to raster:
btw - a window is a specific entity in x - a "Rectangle" that you can draw to. the top shelf, the "starting app...x" and a bunch of things in E are windows. every application that runs opens a window. dialogs are windows. thats what you can't to translucency between. a window defines a boundary between the control of one thing and another of that part of the screen.
Even if we are doing this under the window, there can not be transparency?
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by raster
if u are happy with not having translucency over the top bar... or over other windows, then it can be done
