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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE fragile?
From: David Sweet <dsweet () andamooka ! org>
Date: 2000-09-11 11:23:01
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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
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