Thread: [Under consideration] UI wait indicator
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2009-10-27 , 11:32
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Originally Posted by MrGrim View Post
You know, i don't like my idea so much that i have to keep pushing it, it just kind of annoys me i can't seem to make it well understood. So here it is again, for the last time (i promise!): when cpu usage goes above, say, 90%, the screen becomes black and white. There is no light fading (maybe even making it 5% brighter to compensate for lack of colors). There is no overlay and nothing to keep you from trying to interact with it, it just carries on as usual, but looks a bit different to let you know it's busy
I see the logic and it's non-intrusive, but loss of color is loss of functionality. For text it might not interfere with ability to get information off the screen for the current task, but it might for other use cases. Image editing?

I like the LED idea, but I'd also like some form of visual indicator on-screen. It will boil down to implementation, but I think a discreet transparent overlay is less obtrusive.

Is it maybe an idea to make the indicator pluggable so people can write their own screen-dimming code later if they don't like the overlay?

Originally Posted by MrGrim View Post
Some apps are right to use lots of resources. When i decompress a .zip, i prefer a 10 second inactivity period and then back to idle rather than 2 minutes using 10% CPU. Apps should not be killed just because of resource use, and deciding which ones are not responding and which simply have high demands is hard
Completely agree. It's my ARM processor to tax, dammit!