Re: Progress bar on startup

[Damien Covey <djcovey softhome net>]

Well, I have another take on the subject.  Why dont we just do away with
the need for any sort of progress indicator.  I mean should we focus our
efforts on making Gnome start up so quickly that there is simply no need
for a progress indicator?  Excuse me if I'm dreaming or on the wrong planet,
but I think that having Gnome start within a couple of seconds would me much
more user friendly that watching some progress indicator.  Oh course I dont
really have any technical knowledge of how such an increase in startup time
could be achieved, however I do have one *possible* suggestion.  

Why cant we start to load Gnome whilst the user is at the login screen?  That
is of course only if Gnome was the default login.  There will be I know many
reasons why we cant do this or why it will be difficult, but I know that
I would appreciate any startup icrease that I can have.

Alan Horkan wrote:
> > Given that machines are getting faster, and GNOME is getting much
> > quicker to start up, what do people think of getting rid of the progress
> > indicator?  It doesn't really show any useful information right now.
> >   
>
> What about the people with crap machines? (by people i mean me)
>
> User feedback is good.  Perhaps you might change it rather than remove it,
> perhaps show an hourglass cursor or something.
>
> Just because developers have huge monitors and fast machines does not mean
> other users will be upgrading anytime soon.  (i realise you cannot base
> developement on the lowest common denominator either) maybe there is some
> detail i am missing and i have misinterpeted this as being worse than it
> actually is.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan H.
>
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