Re: [Usability] Removing GNOME splash screens?

[Kirk Bridger <kbridger shaw ca>]

I just wanted to mention that if we're looking at alternatives to the
splash screen, I believe that a progress bar is better than an hourglass
cursor.  The progress bar shows PROGRESS, while the cursor just shows
that the computer is busy doing something ... anything.

The progress bar is more informative, and much easier to interpret and
see.

But I agree that feedback is required.  Gnome is not quick to load from
GDM, and just waiting for things to appear onscreen is just bad design.


Kirk



On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 18:44, Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> 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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