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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Generic splash screen class?
From:       Christoph Held <c-held () web ! de>
Date:       2002-07-11 11:21:22
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On Wednesday 10 July 2002 21:45, Ryan Cumming wrote:
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> Hi,
>
Beginner appreciate splash screens. 
>
> Splash screens are absolutely evil. They distract the user,

No, beginners are just looking on the center of the screen and see nothing 
happen. They don't see the hourglass. I have seen many users opening one 
application multiple times.

> bloat the
> application, and actually increase startup time.

But still, beginners will feel the startup is shorter because it is less 
boring than to look at the wallpaper.

> If you want to prevent
> splash screen related code duplication, remove the splash screens entirely.
>

Though, for advanced users there should be a kcm option to turn all splash 
screens of. With a basic splash screen class, this should be simple.
I have tought about creating a splash screen class, some time ago. I thought 
it would be nice to make all splash screen (evantually) of the kde 
distribution look more consistent:

http://home.in.tum.de/~held/kivio-old.png
http://home.in.tum.de/~held/kivio-new.png

I thought the basic splash screen class could overwrite part of the picture 
somehow.( It wasn't appreciated back then, and I have started working on 
something else...)

Greetings

Christoph
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