[Bug 94995] opening a program does not immediately show a reaction

[Andrew Frank]

Public bug reported:

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)

** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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opening a program does not immediately show a reaction
https://launchpad.net/bugs/94995