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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Generic splash screen class?
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-07-11 11:41:23
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On Thursday July 11, 2002 04:21, Christoph Held wrote:
> 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.

If an app takes too long to show its window, then that app needs to be 
fixed.  Don't initialize everything that can possibly be initialized on 
app startup.

Masking over that with a splash screen just adds to the problem.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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