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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: common splash screens (screenshot)
From:       "Steven D'Aprano" <dippy () mikka ! net ! au>
Date:       2001-08-04 11:27:27
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Christoph Held wrote:
> 
> Two point to consider:
> 
> 1. The issue does not seem very important (and of course it isn't ;-) ,but
> IMHO splash screens are the first impressions a user gets. If the user sees
> lot of complete different splash screens some users might get the first
> impression that the desktop(/koffice) parts do not work well together. And,
> as everyone knows, the first impression is hard to change.

I think you are under-estimating user's intelligence and over-estimating
their fickleness. Users don't expect splash screen to look the same any
more than they expect all cars to be the same colour. But they do expect
all cars to have the brake and accelerator pedals in the same place.

> 2. Currently, there are only a few splash screens, but I guess the number
> will increase. It is better to think right now about the issue, because later
> people would be upset if they would have to redesign them.

I would hope the number will decrease, not increase. There are very few
places where a splash screen is a good idea. Slow loading apps like Gimp
is one of them, but one can hope that KDE won't specialise in fat
bloated apps like Gimp.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the Gimp very much, but one would hope
that fat apps like it would be the exception, not the rule.




-- 
Steven D'Aprano

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