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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 51490@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51490: Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs window
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:01:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834jx0vnam.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkr8am4o.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed,  21 Sep 2022 15:32:39 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se,  51490@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:32:39 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > That's true, but if Lisp cannot run, neither can redisplay.  They both
> > access the internal Emacs state: buffers, variables, etc.  Even to
> > replace a single glyph, you'd need to access faces, right?
> 
> I'm not sure that we have to?  That's why I wondered whether we could
> somehow get away with just altering the glyph matrix...

We barely get away with that on TTY frames (that's how TTY menus are
implemented).  On GUI frames, I don't think it's feasible, not with
the code we have now.

As for not accessing any Lisp data: do you really believe our users
will let us deprive them of even the minimal customization
capabilities, like determining the face of this indicator and how it
generally looks?  I sincerely doubt that.

> > Also, poking a single glyph on a GUI frame is unsafe, because no one
> > can be sure the new glyph will have the same metrics as the old one.
> 
> I was thinking way more primitive than that -- just altering the
> pixelish data on some level.  I.e., I wouldn't want to display the
> characters | \ etc, but instead some pre-calculated pixel data.

We don't write pixels to the glass, we call GUI APIs to do that.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-21 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-04 23:03 bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow Richard Stallman
2015-02-05 11:42 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-02-05 16:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-25 22:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26  6:14   ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-15 21:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-15 22:00       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-22 23:59         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23  7:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 12:43             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 14:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 14:25                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 16:22                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 17:06                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 17:56                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-24 18:45                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 19:10                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 19:18                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 19:24                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 19:42                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 20:09                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 20:14                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 20:18                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 20:40                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 21:52                                     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-25 13:08                                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 13:20                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 13:33                                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-29 17:28                                             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-29 17:38                                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-29 17:59                                                 ` bug#51490: Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs window Stefan Kangas
2021-10-30 12:40                                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 20:16                                                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-20 11:36                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 11:06                                                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-21 11:49                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 12:01                                                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-21 12:34                                                               ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-21 13:08                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 13:05                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 13:32                                                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-21 14:01                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-09-21 16:02                                                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-21 16:21                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 17:11                                                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-22  6:28                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-22 10:54                                                                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-22 12:33                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-22 13:08                                                                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-22 14:03                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-22 15:57                                                                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-22 16:21                                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-23 15:06                                                                                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-23 15:45                                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-22 13:02                                                                             ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-22 13:59                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 22:14                             ` bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-24 22:28                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25  7:33                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-25 13:11                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 13:33                                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-25 13:46                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-25 13:52                                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 14:05                                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 14:16                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 14:25                                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 14:31                                             ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-25 14:36                                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 14:48                                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 14:32                                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 14:00                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 14:35                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-25 15:05                                     ` bug#19776: timerfd doesn't work when busy-looping Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 15:59                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 16:16                                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 16:41                                           ` bug#19776: The hourglass Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 16:51                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 16:57                                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 16:09                                 ` bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 16:19                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 16:53                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 17:01                                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 17:07                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 17:11                                           ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-25 17:12                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 17:52                                               ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-25 18:25                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25  2:17           ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-25 13:10             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-27 12:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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