From: Alan Horkan (horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 07:07:59 EST
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:25:28 +0100
> From: Tomas Frydrych <tomasfrydrych_at_yahoo.co.uk>
> To: abiword-dev_at_abisource.com
> Subject: splash screen
>
>
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> I really love Ryan's new splash screen; I would like to suggest to
> make this the official splash screen.
>
> see it at http://www.ryand.net/oss/abi/splash.png
My only problem is the version number.
In the past version numbers on graphics have not been updated.
If the version number and or build date could be generated by a script and
automatically superimposed on the image I'd be a lot happier about it.
Since Gnome supports startup notifcation (and KDE has done for ages too)
and since Abiword is still extremely fast shouldn't we disable the splash
screen because there is no techinical reason for having it? The marketing
reasons that Sourcegear had for using it seem moot at this point.
We will always have the About dialog for people to put nice artwork in
(when I was just a beginner I thought the about dialog was the most
pointless feature ever, as it actually tells you so little ABOUT the
program although most programs are smart enough to use it to provide
useful information like version numbers and build dates so I have come to
accept that it isn't a total waste of space like a splash screen).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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