[KLUG Advocacy] A User Leaving

[Adam Williams]

>>I just updated my Ximian GNOME packages via red-carpet and I'm getting
>>something I've never seen before:  An hourglass in task bar when I click
>>on an icon to start a process until the window appears.   It even
>>appears between when evo's splash screen goes away and before the
>>application window paints itself.
>I have all the latest Ximian updates, and I'm not seeing any hourglass.
>Where exactly are you seeing it?  Does the mouse pointer turn into an
>hour glass, or does it appear somewhere else?

No the mouse pointer remains the same (which I like).  The hour glass
shows up in the task chooser applett on the tool bar as a selector with
the name of the application (Evolution, Terminal, etc...) and the hour
glass as the icon.  The hour glass also appears in the focus indicator
(top right by default) until the applications first window appears.
> 
>I wonder if there is a setting to turn it on somewhere . . .

Not that I did.  I had the hourglass pointer thing along time ago when
it was in the main build,  but it went away when they removed the
feature.  Maybe it is still floating around in gconf somewhere,  but I
don't see anything for it in gnomecc (cursory examination).