> > > > You could open a busy dialogue with status info and a close button. > > Originally I thought of having something like the rotating logo in Netscape indicating that LyX is running an external process... Perhaps a bit wasteful of CPU power though...
> > If the user gets fed up, they can hit close and LyX will either kill or > > ignore the process (check box selectable?) > > > > Also this opens the possibility of a progress bar in situations that LyX > > has this information (don't know if this is applicable yet). > > I would add one more thing to it: > > Don't display the dialog box unless certain reasonable (hah! we have a > flamewar coming ;-) amount of time has elapsed. I would say like have it > displayed only after 2-3 seconds have elapsed, so that when short-lived > processes are called, they don't irritate people by "blinking" their dialog > boxes (I hate^H^H^H^Hdislike it, and I bet more people do too). > Personally I wouldn't want that dialog, a valid status message would be ok. (and a working view->child processes menu) Another nagging dialog is the one that says that there were errors... I'd prefer being able to disable that, and get a message in the status line instead. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Design http://www.md.kth.se
