From kde-core-devel  Mon Sep 11 11:23:01 2000
From: David Sweet <dsweet () andamooka ! org>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:23:01 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE fragile?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=96867178524074

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > * KDE takes far too long to start.
>
> Yes, yes, yes!
> If one wants to judge on the speed of KDE this will just hurt us!
> People very often judge about something by only evaluating
> the first seconds they were made familiar with the new thing they
> don't know yet. The first experience for KDE 2 is
> that they get a damn-slow *first* startup -- People would
> realize that this first startup is an exception if they would
> see a sign telling: "You have started KDE2 the first time --
> We need to initialize some stuff -- this may take a while"

Yes -- and maybe a more finer-grained progress indictor would reassure the 
user that something is being done and that this new software hasn't just hung.

Dave