On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 22:37, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie> writes: > > > > Given that machines are getting faster, and GNOME is getting much > > > quicker to start up, what do people think of getting rid of the progress > > > indicator? It doesn't really show any useful information right now. > > > > What about the people with crap machines? (by people i mean me) > > > > User feedback is good. Perhaps you might change it rather than remove it, > > perhaps show an hourglass cursor or something. > > I don't mind generic 'progress' indicator. I think something like the > spinning, horizontal barbershop-pole that apple has is fine. > > > Just because developers have huge monitors and fast machines does not mean > > other users will be upgrading anytime soon. (i realise you cannot base > > developement on the lowest common denominator either) maybe there is some > > detail i am missing and i have misinterpeted this as being worse than it > > actually is. > > I'm looking at a P2-450 -- hardly a speed daemon. The problem I'm > complaining about is that the progress meter is totally misleading, and > the text is uninteresting. I want to either make it abstract, or get > rid of it altogether. Abstract dude! Garrett had an idea that didn't steal from Apple for a nifty progress. Maybe there would be some way to get the desktop appearing a bit more rapidly, ie. instead of showing the splash and keep on loading when it's done, maybe we could use bits from Havoc's launch feedback to get the desktop appearing suddenly. So that it's actually ready to use when the splash/waiting spinning thingo disappears. -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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