* Máirín Duffy (2006-12-20 12:58 -0500) said: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ [...] > 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. But not much we can do to improve their startup time at this time. So a splash screen will be in those apps for Fedora 7. >> 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. I like this attitude :) Some of those distros have reached nearly complete theme across the Desktop and the splash screen might as well make it more complete. We are not in this stage though. -- Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F) _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
