Re: [Usability] Removing GNOME splash screens?

[Leonardo Santagada <santagada gmail com>]

The feedback should be optional, so each os and distribution can show
it the way they think is correct. It should be on by default, but it
is a lot better if a distribution can have it load in the background
while if shows an uniform progress of system startup if they want it.


On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:48:25 +0200, Uno Engborg <uno webworks se> wrote:
> Tiago Cogumbreiro wrote:
> 
> >I totally agree.
> >
> >On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 19:05, Brian Skahan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Why remove it?
> >>
> >>There is a delay, so there should be feedback.
> >>
> 
> I agree, there should be a feedback if there is a delay. The question is
> do the feedback add significantly to the delay.  I really have no idea
> if this is the case in the Gnome splash screen, but if it do we need
> to make the feedback leaner, not remove it altogether.
> 
> Anybody having problem with the image loading when logging in over
> slow network connections? I doubt it.
> 
> Regards
> Uno Engborg
> 
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