Re: Hi all

[William Kendrick <nbs sonic net>]

> 3. When Macs (and Windows) start up a program, the mouse pointer has the
> sand timer come up or a watch had rotating.  When I've shown GNOME to
> first time users, that's what they first ask, "Is the program started?" 
> A task bar should be "initialized" to show the "startup" of the program
> until it is ready to be used.  This should be a two step process: task
> bar is initiated and is "unuseable" until the program is ready, then it
> should be like normal task bars.

Look into "xalf".  It does this in one of three ways (you pick what you
want):

  1. pointer changes to hourglass
  2. 'invisible' window appears (so that there's a placeholder in the
     task list)
  3. splash window appears


> 5. I use Star Office and the menu for Fonts and Fonts sizes stinks in
<snip>

Currently, Star Office isn't a gnome app.  :)

-bill!