[tor-bugs] #3195 [Vidalia]: Vidalia in TBB gives no hint that there's a browser window coming

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#3195: Vidalia in TBB gives no hint that there's a browser window coming
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 Reporter:  arma     |          Owner:  chiiph       
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new          
 Priority:  major    |      Milestone:  Vidalia-0.3.X
Component:  Vidalia  |        Version:               
 Keywords:           |         Parent:               
   Points:           |   Actualpoints:               
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Comment(by arma):

 Replying to [comment:6 chiiph]:
 > I don't understand what kind of feedback will the user get if we listen
 to those events. I mean, wouldn't it be the same as looking at the status
 displayed by Firefox?

 The goal would be that Vidalia watches for the events, and it knows to not
 let the user think everything has started up until it sees activity from
 Firefox.

 > Does anybody thinks that the popup dialog with a clock-like animation I
 talked about is a bad idea? Because I think right now it's the most
 straight forward way of doing this (since Vidalia doesn't know anything
 regarding TBB in its C++ code, it's all in a plugin).
 > If having a global progress bar displaying N serial progresses is a
 really good idea in terms of usability, I can add a way of plugin-inify
 that. But I also think that the user will notice this particular case more
 if it's separated from the "starting tor"-progressbar that they already
 know and won't pay much attention to.

 I'm not sure which approach would be more usable. I'd say build whichever
 one you are happier building, and we'll try it out, get user feedback, and
 proceed from there.

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