Dave Miner wrote: > Frank Ludolph wrote: >> Niall Power wrote: >>> Hi Frank, >>> >>> Thanks for prioritising this list. Some initial comments/questions.... >>> >>> >>> >>>>> 3. Splash screen - Display a splash screen if the installer takes >>>>> more than a few seconds to display the Welcome screen >>>>> >>> >>> I don't know of any reliable way to determine how long the app is >>> going to take to come >>> up. Although I expect that if we're running off a live CD, chances >>> are that it will consistently >>> be over 3 seconds. Things in general will be slower across the >>> desktop, not just the installer >>> application. It's probably simplest just to always display a splash >>> image and be done with it. >>> >> Didn't word that quite properly. It was intended to be all or nothing >> as you suggest. When the user double-clicks on the installer desktop >> icon, how long will it generally take for the installer to put up its >> first window? If we expect this to happen pretty quickly as a rule, >> then we don't need a splash screen. Otherwise we do. We'll wait until >> we get the installer running on a LiveCD and figure out whether we >> need a splash screen or not. Maybe Dave has some applicable >> experience already? > > I just tried starting the Dwarf installer by double-clicking on a > desktop icon from my current hacked CD image and the worst case on my > Tecra M5 was about 6-7 seconds for the language selection screen to > show up. Might take you that long to get the splash screen up, > though, if the CD's been spun down (which was the worst case), so I > don't know whether a splash screen is actually going to help the > situation... Thanks for the data point. I expect that you are correct in thinking that a splash screen isn't likely to be displayed any more quickly than the language dialog. I think that maybe we should skip the splash screen for the preview and reconsider it when we have more data.
Frank
