Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Splash screen and start hidden

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

On Hën , 2003-12-08 at 06:24, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> I'm looking for comments about the following topics :
> 
> 1) I had thought removing the "start hidden" option from the preferences
> and automatically start hidden if the gnomemeeting main window was not
> shown the last time the program was exited. However, thinking more about
> it leads me to think that it can be confusing for users and that it
> would be best to keep the option. Any comments ? 

Maybe splitting out the "hidden" and "gui" parts would be nice. Such
that there is a per-user daemon in the background that notifies you of
incoming calls, and then when you answer, the full UI comes up, and we
can just get rid of "Quit" in the menu, and grab C-q and put "Close" in
the menu, so we have both C-q and C-w work for closing the window. It
would be nice to fix gnomemeeting to not show the icon in the
notification area all the time also. :)

> 2) GnomeMeeting has a superb splash screen. Splash screens are very
> useful for programs that take a long time to start, that's not the case
> of GnomeMeeting anymore on modern hardware, so I planned to disable the
> splash screen by default but keep the option available for users who
> really want a splash screen in their setups. Any comments ?

Splash screens are poor UI. That is all. :)

-- dobey