From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 19776@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:08:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmrtz1y7.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkuGXBQ2DQqHY=pmx3fEMnLTjNVxLA1esHe9ht5va516A@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:52:34 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> I didn't study what you did here, but one thing that would be really
> nice is if we could update this message dynamically. Other software
> show a spinning marker for example, perhaps we could do something
> similar? In the simplest case, you just need to update a character
> every 0.1 seconds (or something) in the sequence "|/-\".
>
> I'm not an expert on UIX by any means, but AFAIK, users like it when
> there is some visible feedback that the program didn't just go and die.
> Research shows that the brain is easy to trick that way; even just a
> dumb little spinning thing makes people subjectively feel that the
> program is more responsive. Maybe we could use that to our advantage.
These days, you usually get a spinning thing from the OS when the
application is unresponsive in this way, I guess?
But, yes, this mechanism could easily be extended to display a spinner.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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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 [this message]
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
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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