From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 20:16:37 EDT
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> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 22:04:17 +0100
>> From: Rui Miguel Seabra <rms_at_1407.org>
>> To: abiword-dev_at_abisource.com
>> Subject: Re: Removing unneeded preferences
>>
>> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 13:56 +0200, Marc Maurer wrote:
>> > > > id_SHOWSPLASH
>> > > > Branding is nice. Showing a splash as well. Dunno, maybe I'm
>> misguided,
>> > > > having a GUI for it makes me feel strange, though.
>> >
>> > Well, i love the splash for new users, but I always disable it, since
>> > Abi starts faster than the time the splash is displayed.
>>
>> I'd consider that a bug that if corrected would make the option almost
>> meaningless.
>
> In any application disabling the splash screen should speed things up
> because it is one less thing to do. Even if this has no real effect I
> still disable splash screens whenever I can because I believe it has an
> effect and sometimes even that is enough to improve user satisfaction.
>
> Gnome has startup notification (the cursor turns into an hourglass) to
> indicate something is happening so the splash screen is not needed to help
> show that something is actually happening, but as Abiword is so fast this
> was never much of a worry.
>
> In fact Abiword is so fast that the SourceGear team had to deliberately
> make it stay visible (for five seconds i believe) even after the
> application is already fully loaded (less than three seconds usually).
> One of the developers already alluded to this as their reason for
> disabling the splash screen.
>
> "There is no bug, there is only a feature"
>
Yes. It's currently 2 seconds on the unix build. I'm not sure if abi is
immediately ready accept your clicks as soon as the screen appears.
In principle the splashscreen does not slow anything down. It's more
psycological thing. You don't start typing until it's gone.
Martin
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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