[Okular-devel] [Bug 181326] avoid white pages as progress indicators -- flickering

[Pino Toscano]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181326





--- Comment #7 from Pino Toscano <pino kde org>  2009-01-19 22:12:53 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> I meant, visually adding. Not changing the image itself.

And again, it changes the image, meant as "what the user sees".
Imagine some logo popping up in a renderer page, wouldn't this surprise the
user? "wft? the page changed?".

> You said above that showing white pages is not an option. We are talking about
> those artificially created objects, not white pages from pdf!

They are *NOT* articifically created objects, they are *pages* of the document!
They do have the proper size, the proper objects on them (like annotations,
form fields, etc)... just they have not been rendered yet, or they need to be
rendered again.

> > *Every* document reader out there shows white pages while rendering
> > them and not blocking the UI, this is a well known behaviour.
> 
> Hurray, every other document readers strain the eyes, lets follow the path.
> 
> What kind of thinking is that? If everybody makes a mistake, and huge one,
> because somebody's health cannot be taken lightly, you are opposing, because it
> is better be in the crowd?

That's not the point.
The point is: if that would be a so huge problem, wouldn't that be solved
already since years?
The behaviour model is well tested and working fine.

> ? I don't get it -- I just want to remove the extra page between which was
> generated artificially on the fly, which causes flickering effect.

Again, there is nothing extra. What you see is *your* document.


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