Subject: bug#51490: Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs window

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:54:41 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Aren't they the simplest graphical element drawn by Emacs, a simple 
>> black-and-white bitmap?
>
> No, they aren't.  They are certainly not black-and-white: they use
> faces.

They use faces to get at the colours, but nothing beyond that, I think?