RE: Hi all

["Tom Musgrove" <TomM pentstar com>]

Kevin wrote
> 3. When Macs (and Windows) start up a program, the mouse pointer has the
> sand timer come up or a watch had rotating.  When I've shown GNOME to
> first time users, that's what they first ask, "Is the program started?"
> A task bar should be "initialized" to show the "startup" of the program
> until it is ready to be used.  This should be a two step process: task
> bar is initiated and is "unuseable" until the program is ready, then it
> should be like normal task bars.

Better would be to launch a splash screen immediately, so that they know the
program is starting, the hour glass is too subtle for some novice users
(hence they click on the icon 30 times and launch 30 copies of the program).
I seem to recall someone mentioning that KDE 2.0 does this...


Tom M.
TomM Pentstar com