Re: [Usability] Removing GNOME splash screens? (was: Re: Future of desktop splash screens - some thoughts)

[Tiago Cogumbreiro <cogumbreiro linus uac pt>]

Ultimately one could solve this issue like GDM has solved it. Two types
of progress: a native window with a progress-bar and a graphical
skinnable one (like the current).

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 02:55, Brian Skahan wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 23:17 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: 
> > No one is stupid enough to argue against that basic usability principle on
> > the Gnome usability mailing list.
> > 
> > There does not need to be a splash screen to provide feedback.
> > Feedback can be provided without making into a splash screen.
> I'm sure it could, but the splash screen seems to do that
> effectively.  Somewhere else (desktop-devel I think) there was a
> suggestion that "System Level" applications (metacity and nautilus for
> example) should not show on startup, only "user" apps.  I think that's
> a solid idea, but the distinction may be fuzzy.  
> 
> Windows iirc, starts numerous applications on login without telling
> you, the splash screen in its current incarnation is an improvement
> over that.
> 
> > The particular choice of splash screen in Ubuntu was considered
> > inappropriate by some more conservative users.
> Its a good thing you can change the image.
> > I find splash screens in general to be annoying advertising and the
> > question has already been asked if we really need this kind of
> > advertising and branding?
> There's no reason the splash screen has to be branding, any number of
> the splash images on art.gnome.org are completely unrelated to gnome. 
> It makes sense for the default to be a gnome splashscreen though.
> 
> > > Why revert it to a rather boring status bar?
> > 
> > How about waiting until a suggestion is made on how to replace things
> > before we decide not to try out the changes at all?
> Status bar or busy cursor were suggested elsewhere in thread.
> 
> -Brian