On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 09:03 -0700, Frank Ludolph wrote: > > Changing the cursor to an hourglass when the user d-clicks a desktop > icon essentially "locks" access to the entire desktop - a wait cursor > tells the user that the object under the mouse pointer is not ready to > receive user inputs.
An hourglass on its own does, but Firefox et al. have a "working in background" cursor to indicate that something is happening but the window is still interactive. (Attached are the Windows Vista equivalents, the only ones I had to hand...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: working in background.png Type: image/png Size: 3957 bytes Desc: URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20070907/ac26c462/attachment.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: busy.png Type: image/png Size: 3751 bytes Desc: URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20070907/ac26c462/attachment-0001.png>
