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On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 07:53  PM, Colter Reed wrote:
>> I've always kind of wondered why fire doesn't have an activity monitor.
>>
>> Here's a vision: Instead of just freezing up the program (that 
>> is...when
>> one signs on to various services), we should see nice little revolving
>> arrows.  When you click these revolving arrows a little window that
>> shows the progress of each sign-on (or sign-off) could pop up.  (For an
>> example, look at Mail.app).
>
> Because there's no negotiation.  No sequence of steps that must be 
> followed
> to sign on.  With IMAP/SMTP, there are.  With Fire, you would jump from 
> 0%
> to 100%.  We already do that.

Still, it would be good for Fire to show chasing arrows when Fire is 
connecting or disconnecting accounts, and do those operations on a 
separate thread to keep the UI responsive.

-Jason

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