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Windows XP stuff for XFCE
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Progress spinners don't make any sense #145

Open BasedUser opened 2 years ago

BasedUser commented 2 years ago

Hi. This is more of a wishlist issue than a serious nuisance. After looking at some screenshots, I noticed that there's a spinner in one of them (and subsequently how there's a lot more spinners in modern apps to indicate progress.) Seeing as there isn't an issue for this, I decided to open one up to point PRs to. Here's what could be done about this:

  1. Replace progress spinners with an hourglass cursor ("busy" and "working in background"). Windows XP does this all the time, but issues might arise if there's multiple spinners.
  2. Replace progress spinners with horizontal progress bars. Windows XP applications do this rarely. Spinners are also too small for a progress bar.
  3. Replace spinners with a flipping hourglass. This is completely new, somewhat faithful to the OS's legacy (the default theme doesn't have such an animation, but one can easily be made looking at some other themes' sprites), and is the easiest possible solution on paper.

Of course, neither of these could happen. I just wanted to put this out there because it's one of the few things in this theme that doesn't click. Thank you.

rozniak commented 2 years ago

The small progress throbber? I'm pretty sure the anim has to be the same size as the space it occupies, it's one of the widgets still using default styles atm. I was thinking I believe there's a throbber in one of the Visual Studio installers or something that might work. Something akin to the throbber you see during the Windows XP setup (in the bottom right) but needs to fit in the small space (I think... unless it's a min-height/min-width jobby...