[Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars

[Jason Harris]

Hi James,

On Thursday 16 August 2007 15:24, James Bowlin wrote:
> On Thu August 16 2007 3:46 pm, Jason Harris wrote:
> > What do you think about embedding a progressbar temporarily in the
> > main window status bar, rather than showing a splash window for this?
>
> On my system bumping the faint limit from 6.0 to 10.0 takes about 10
> seconds even with the stars.dat file cached.  During this time KStars
> is unresponsive.  Since people should already associate the splash
> screen with the loading of data, I think the splash screen in the
> center of the skymap is the way to go.  Otherwise, people will notice
> that KStars is unresponsive but not notice the status bar and file
> bug reports.  If we can predict the re-loading is going to be quick
> then I think the status bar would be a better option for those cases.
>
Ok, I agree with your reasoning for a blocking window during the re-indexing

> My main concern was to get the message string into the code before
> the string freeze. I'm currently using:
>
>    i18n("Please wait while loading faint stars ...")
>
> If you or anyone else would prefer something different, just LMK.
> I don't really care as long as we have something reasonable before
> the freeze.

Sounds fine to me.
Jason

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