GNU bug report logs - #51490
Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs window

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, 51490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51490: Show an indicator when Emacs is busy somewhere in the Emacs window
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:03:41 +0300

> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:08:25 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
> cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, stefan <at> marxist.se, 
>     51490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> They use faces to get at the colours, but nothing beyond that, I think?
> >
> > Yes, only the colors.  But accessing the faces means you cannot do that 
> > while the Lisp machine is doing something.
> 
> But would it be really necessary to access these faces each time the 
> indicator would be drawn?  We could for example cache the values of these 
> two colors somewhere

Faces are already cached.  But for each cache there comes a time when
it must be flushed and/or refreshed, and during those times you cannot
safely use the cache.

> or decide to do something different and use a 
> specific function to set these two colors without going through the whole 
> face machinery, something like (set-busy-indicator-colors FOREGROUND 
> BACKGROUND).

As soon as we allow set-busy-indicator-colors or somesuch, we have a
problem with Lisp programs doing that exactly when there's time to
redraw the indicator.

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