Hi John,
John Baer wrote:
I do agree splash screens should not be at the top of our list and to
Fedora's credit Open Office and Gimp do load quickly, but I also feel
strongly we should not lose site of what we are trying to accomplish.
"Provide the best user experience possible!"
How do OOo, Gimp, and Eclipse splash screens provide the best user
experience possible...? They don't. They provide a fuller 'brand
experience' for sure, but that's different from 'user experience'
(former benefits us more than it would users.)
The best user experience possible is applications loading up so quickly
you don't need a splash screen to provide feedback that yes, the
application is loading.
I would remind everyone many of the other distro's
(Ubuntu/openSuSE/Zenwalk/Vector/and the list goes on) have decided to
theme the splash screens of Open Office and Gimp. I do not know how they
came to that decision but I believe they simply want to provide the best
user experience possible.
We need to be a leader, not a follower. Just because others are doing
something doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Although I have not provided a submission as of yet, one could easily
apply the same arguments (pro/con) to the Gnome Screen Saver Lock
screen. Perhaps the grub splash screen as well.
I would encourage us to not focus on what we can't do but rather focus
on creating everything we can to provide the "best user experience
possible". We started early, we have the talent, let's go for it!
I don't really think we are focusing on what's possible so much as what
is reasonable and in our users' best interests. I think davidz is
absolutely right in pointing out the splash screens probably shouldn't
be there in the first place - the apps should start up faster. For us to
ask package maintainers to add splash screens to apps would take their
time away to implement really cool features and bugfixes that really
have a greater positive impact on the user's experience.
~m
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