Re: free graphic excitement

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 9 Sep 2008, at 00:40, Andre Klapper wrote:

> Am Montag, den 08.09.2008, 14:38 -0500 schrieb James Coddington:
> > http://www.soaringbrain.com/GnomeTest2.swf
>
> (Personal feedback, not speaking on behalf of Marketing team:)
> > From a technical point of view I wonder how much slower this will  
> > make
> login time. "If we still have a splash screen in ten years, we have  
> done
> something wrong." (I think I quoted dobey here.)
> Also wondering if this would annoy me when I log in for the, say, 30th
> time.

Inclined to agree-- might be worth showing once per user, though, like  
the "Welcome to OSX" sort of thing that Apple do.  After that,  
probably just leave it somewhere that people can find it again, if  
they want to.

Could be interesting to use this sort of technology to do a GNOME  
desktop tour video, though, especially if it was updated to highlight  
the coolest features in each release :)  (Although one problem that's  
always existed with that idea is that not all distros ship all GNOME  
features, and/or add their own...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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