#8755 NORM Not Tri: cancelling the Frame icon that shows "Starting ..."

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#8755: cancelling the Frame icon that shows "Starting ..."
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 Reporter:  mikus             |         Owner:  Eben                             
     Type:  enhancement       |        Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal            |     Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
Component:  interface-design  |       Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                    |   Next_action:  never set                        
 Verified:  0                 |     Blockedby:                                   
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 When an Activity is launched, a pulsing screen is shown, and the
 Activity's icon is put in the Frame, with 'Starting ...' as the only entry
 in the palette for that icon.  There are at least two circumstances when I
 may not want that icon to continue to appear in the Frame:

 ((1)) When, despite having launched the Activity, I decide I do not want
 to run it after all.  I could wait until the Activity starts, at which
 time the palette for that (in the) Frame icon changes to provide 'Stop'.
 But if I do not want to wait that long, I ought to be able to "prematurely
 terminate" the launching of that Activity.

 ((2)) When the Activity's launch fails, but the "being launched" screen
 continues to pulse.  In the current implementation, that screen "goes
 away" only after a Sugar implemented time-out.  [I could alt-tab to
 another screen, but what if I don't like the "being launched" screen to be
 present for that long a time?]

 [[BR]]I am requesting is that a 'Cancel' entry be added to the palette
 that currently only shows 'Starting ...'.  The user could click on
 'Cancel' to terminate the launching (and the pulsing screen).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8755>
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