opening a program does not immediately show a reaction

[Andrew Frank]

Binary package hint: gnome

a principle of user interface design is to provide feedback to the user. gnome does not always respect this. a particularly annoying behaviour is:

when opening a program (double click) nothing happens for a while till the program opens. when the open procedure is started, the first (very first) thing is to give the user feedback that the command is received. to this end one must change the cursor to the 'wait cursor (rotating symbol)'.

the current behaviour of 'silently working' causes the user to doubt that anything has happend and click another time (a third, forth...) to find after a while that many copies have opened. this happens often to me when starting ubuntu and the system is not yet fully responsive (another problem - how to inform the user that the startup is not completely completed, and system responsiveness will improve when this is done).

i hope this is only a minor change ...

thank you for a nice system!

andrew
(i run feisty 7.04 - software is updated)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Where do you open your application? Using the gnome-panel the cursor change to a round spinning one indicating the activity

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

i open from a panel (e.g. thunderbird). it does not show any sign of working (no round spinning cursor) and then later i see for some programs at the bottom pannel an indication "starting XX" which changes later into the "XX" button.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you don't need to double click on the gnome-panel, what application do you start?

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

this is now fixed with one of the latest updates of 7.04
thank you!

andrew

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the update, marking fixed then