Do you block people changing methods in their image with a separate
browser?  It is my understanding that this was the purpose for letting
the GUI just block: to make sure no one could edit methods while in an
odd state.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Done,
>  http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6926
>
>  I thought a bit about better behavior another day,
>  and i think, the best should be to show repository browser tool and
>  start downloading in background.
>  A repository window, while downloading should reflect somehow, that
>  it's currently busy and upon finish, it should update contents with
>  results available.
>  Same when clicking on separate package in list:
>  - it should lock all operations (so i still can move/resize window but
>  can't invoke any operations) and show that there is operation pending,
>  and again, upon completion show update contents of window.
>  As variant, it can allow multiple background operations:
>  - often i miss and clicking package with wrong version, resulting in
>  waiting multiple seconds until it will let me click on another
>  package.
>  With background downloading this limitation can be removed - by simply
>  terminate the background process and start over the new one (of course
>  i only suggesting, i'm not sure if it's safe enough to do in that
>  way).
>
>
>
>  On 14/02/2008, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi Igor,
>  >
>  >  could you please fill a bug report on mantis? This is the preferred
>  >  way of improving things. You should also consider sending a mail to
>  >  Keith Hodges who did a lot of work on Monticello.
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Feb 13, 2008 11:56 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > Sorry, for flooding ;)
>  >  > In ideal, it should behave like following:
>  >  > when you clicking 'open', a cursor changes to hourglass (but only when
>  >  > you hovering over MC main window), and also all actions are disabled
>  >  > until operation complete.
>  >  >
>  >  > But that may require some extra patching.
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > --
>  >  > Best regards,
>  >  > Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > --
>  >
>  > Damien Cassou
>  >
>  >
>
>
>  --
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>
> Best regards,
>  Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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