Re: Login-out proposed features

[Chris Chabot <chabotc xs4all nl>]

I would have to agree that these visual dress-ups do add a lot for the
user experiance.. If you forinstance look at XP's login procedure you
will find that a lot of the loading is done in the background while you
are being entertained with changing graphics. As long as 'something is
happening' and it draws your attention, a few seconds is hardly
noticable; However being confronted with just a few second wait without
drawing your attention, it seems like a awefully long time. I gues
water really does not cook while your watching it ;-)

A simple fullscreen graphic with a small animation and a non technical
statement like 'starting up' or 'logging in user', would go a long way
to hide load times where aplicable.

MArk Finlay wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 14:50, Psyk[o] wrote:
> > I think that should be cool to have a login/logout effect similar to
> > "lock screen" effect (fade-in & fade-out). Someone can grab the code
> > from the screensaver proprieties in control center.
> >   
>
> For logout I agree that a fadout would be cool. But login takes to long.
> I'd much prefer to see an effect like in enlightnement 16.
>
> You would have a full screen graphic[1] on the screen which would stay
> there until the panels and desktop have fully loaded. The graphic would
> then split in the middle and move off screen upwards and downwards, or
> to the sides. A kind of curtin effect. Would be cool to make it
> themeable.
>
> I once ran nautilus with e16 and my god did it look sweet to have their
> login effect "slide open" to reveal nautilus.
>
> I think that the login part was discussed pre 2.2 as part of a
> discussion about getting rid of the splash screen. Can't remember if ppl
> came to any conclusions though.
>
> [1] Preferable some really slick graphic with the gnome logo and an
> animated hourglass or something like that. Visual impact is EVERYTHING.