[Bugs] #851 Browse URGE: Browse has no "busy" indication

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#851: Browse has no "busy" indication
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    Reporter:  martin.langhoff  |          Owner:  humitos 
        Type:  defect           |         Status:  accepted
    Priority:  Urgent           |      Milestone:  0.98    
   Component:  Browse           |        Version:  0.84.x  
    Severity:  Critical         |       Keywords:  patch   
Distribution:  Unspecified      |   Status_field:  Assigned
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Comment(by garycmartin):

 Replying to [comment:33 manuq]:
 > I think the proper solution is show a spinner in the tab, placed at the
 left of the page title.
 >Even better, show the site icon (favicon) in that place when the tab is
 not loading.  But if the spinner is going to be attacked first, then that
 space should be a placeholder to prevent resizing when the spinner
 appears.
 >
 > In fact is easy to get the favicon with webkit: there are
 [http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/stable/webkitgtk-
 webkitwebview.html#webkit-web-view-get-icon-pixbuf get_icon_pixbuf] and
 [http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/stable/webkitgtk-
 webkitwebview.html#webkit-web-view-get-icon-uri get_icon_uri] methods.
 >
 > What do you think Gary?

 Looking at the current tab sizes, I'm worried abut the extra space this
 will take up, and also not convinced we should add favicons as many will
 not be designed for the dark tab backgrounds, and we will also need an
 alternative default icon place holder for the domains that don't have a
 favicon set.

 The solution used in Safari (iOS and OSX) that would work for us is to
 start the completion bar at ~5-10% immediately a link is clicked or URL
 entered. The odd thing is, this seems to be exactly how Browse is behaving
 today in 13.0.1 build 2. I've tried to reproduce the original case where
 the completion bar lags and have not yet managed it (using slow sites, bad
 domain names, dropping the wan connection), a part of the progress bar is
 always appearing instantly. Can we have a test case please, this may be a
 resurrected stale ticket gone rogue (this is 3 years old now), or perhaps
 the current completion bar feedback is not enough?

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/851#comment:35>
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