konqueror 'progress' indicator into kdelibs?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org>:

> Hiya,
>
> In konqueror (and all other webbrowsers) there is an indicator for
> internet activity. We typically have a animating gears in plain KDE.
>
> One thing we learned from web-apps is that users like web-services. And in
> KDE we tend to integrate those more and more.  Think about marbles
> wikipedia integration as a quick example.
>
> In KOffice I want to have several kinds of services integrated as well,
> and I was thinking about how to do the interaction model.  The biggest
> problem I see is that the internet may be slow and thus that 'browsing'
> may take longer then a user would expect from a desktop application.
> As a specific usecase I was thinking about having a way to browse
> openClipart.org using their webservice and showing the results directly
> in a custom widget instead of something html based.
>
> Based on this issue I want to propose we use the common "internet activity
> busy" indicator in various places in KDE. People know this already and I
> am sure will appreciate the familiar indicator. This would require the
> animating logo as it is in konqueror to be moved up to kdelibs.
>
> What do you guys think?
> Anyone that knows where this stuff is can do it? Or tell me enough to do
> it?

Would KUiServer work for what you want to achieve?
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/kuiserver/


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