I'm stuck in the middle ON one hand, it makes it look slightly more professional... On the other hand, however, it may just make loading time take longer... Why not be smart and include an option in the preferences menu to have it show teh splash on start up?
-Dave Overcash -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Burry Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [sword-devel] More Splashes Trevor's right, programs should simply load in less time than it takes to cue the user that they're loading. In general, there are ways of making a lot of initialization info cached on disk anyway, and most other initialization could happen in the background _after_ the interface is brought up, or on demand the first time a feature is used. Then the splash screen can be relegated to being tucked away inside the "help/about" box. Since we're not shareware we don't even have to use it as a nag screen to pay... Dave At 06:27 PM 10/27/2001 +0000, Trevor Jenkins wrote: >On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Chris Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Why have a splash screen at all?!!!" > > > > Splash screens are a visual cue that the program is loading. > >You've missed the point. The end-user should not have to be told that the >program is loading at all. Only the minimum amout of initialisation should >be done so that the program is ready less that 2 seconds after the load >request is made. :-| Yes, that's right :-| > >Regards, Trevor > >British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. >Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! >Details at http://www.fdp.org.uk/ or http://www.bsl-march.co.uk/ > >-- > ><>< Re: deemed!
