Hi Mirek, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Mirek M. <maz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > Here's my proposal on how to replace the splash screen: > http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/splash/.
It's fantastic to see your creativity being unleashed here. I really hope we can see some of these ideas in LibreOffice in the near future. The start centre and splash screen are topics that I'm really interested in, especially since Christoph put forward a hybrid proposal on the OOo wiki page he just mentioned. > The Start Center would lose the standard chrome of LibO and stand as a very > lightweight application that opens while LibO loads, removing the need for a > splash screen. > For individual applications (where the Start Center is skipped over), there > would be an undistracting notification that the app is opening. The *perceived* speed of startup is something that should really be considered by the designers here. The perception (rather than an objectively measured reality) is what counts. John Wayne of Mozilla made this clear when he wrote: "Firefox is fast, no doubt about it. But for many people it feels pretty slow when starting up. Chrome, while only marginally faster than Firefox at starting, feels much faster. By analyzing videos of these start-up processes we can start to understand what makes Firefox feel slow." [1] I wonder if a similar analysis could be done with LibreOffice to identify design strategies that enhance the user experience (felt experience) of LibreOffice's start up. Mirek, you've put forward some great ideas and possible solutions, but I think we should analyse the problem in more depth first (if you have any data or did any research on this, please share it with us). Regards, Ivan. [1] http://www.johnwaynehill.com/blog/2010/06/16/perceived-speed-performace/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
