Re: Progress bar on startup

[Mike Newman <mike gtnorthern demon co uk>]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 17:17, Jens Knutson wrote:

> Even better than that, perhaps some effort should be made to make all
> the feedback a bit more generically named?  If the point of this is to
> inform users what's happening, telling them that "ESD" is starting
> wouldn't be as useful as, say, "Preparing Sound"[1] or something
> similar.  Basically this would do the same thing to all the strings in
> the startup as was specified for the GNOME menus in the HIG - giving
> everything a generic name instead of referring to specific "branding",
> which means little to nothing to the user.

I like this idea a lot - it may also have the side-effect of helping to
diagnose problems during startup experienced by less experienced users:

"it says Preparing Sounds and then nothing happens"

and the like.

Mike