Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-12 Thread Charlie Kester
On 02/12/2013 07:14, Carlos Torres wrote: because a line accross the bottom of the screen indicates more than the change of a cursor? that tells you missed the point of the line. because just as well the line can get stuck at 10% say and never progress until suddenly its done. Yeah, that's a

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-12 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:12:03 +0100 Jens Nyberg wrote: > I've created a patch that implements what we have talked about. > > I'm still very unsure about what characters we should use and how the > window title text should be formatted so if anyone has a better idea > please let me know

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-12 Thread Jens Nyberg
Disregard my previous patch. I just remember that I forgot one case (when not using SSL). I think this patch is more correct. // Jens 2013/2/12 Jens Nyberg : > I've created a patch that implements what we have talked about. > > I'm still very unsure about what characters we should use and how th

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-12 Thread Jens Nyberg
I've created a patch that implements what we have talked about. I'm still very unsure about what characters we should use and how the window title text should be formatted so if anyone has a better idea please let me know or just make the changes before pushing it. // Jens (jfu on irc) 0001-Rem

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-12 Thread Carlos Torres
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Nick wrote: > Let the title bar hold status, not the pointer. Fine. Die cursor die!

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-12 Thread Nick
Quoth Jens Nyberg: > I think removing the loading indicator (progress bar) at the bottom > could be a good idea. Excellent idea. Agreed.

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-12 Thread Nick
Quoth Carlos Torres: > you don't like the little watch? Christoph is right, the weird different cursor paradigm is not nice at all. Let the title bar hold status, not the pointer.

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-12 Thread Carlos Torres
you don't like the little watch? On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Looking at the patch already gives me nightmares of the past when I was > using this Windows stuff where the changing of this cursor indicated > that some amateur programmer did

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-11 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:39:57 +0100 Carlos Torres wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jens Nyberg wrote: > > > > Oppinions? Agree? Disagree? > > i think this is a good idea mostly because it makes the location of > status information more compact. as an alternative to the > dow

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-11 Thread Carlos Torres
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jens Nyberg wrote: > > Oppinions? Agree? Disagree? i think this is a good idea mostly because it makes the location of status information more compact. as an alternative to the downloading, couldn't the cursor change? http://sprunge.us/ZYOD the patch above adds

Re: [dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-11 Thread Lee Fallat
Hey, Although in my opinion this may seem really impratical, some X sessions are not running window managers of any sort, or the window manager may not visually provide window title information for kiosk-like machines or other reasons...Although you have a good point, and it is easy to hide via th

[dev] [surf] Remove the indicator?

2013-02-11 Thread Jens Nyberg
Hi, I think removing the loading indicator (progress bar) at the bottom could be a good idea. The indicator serves two purposes: 1. It tells you how much of the page has been loaded. This information is redundant because the same information can be found in the window title. 2.