I think we should start first with what the purpose of the splash screen is:
1 Welcome users. Hi I'm OpenOffice. 2 Provide loading progress. If loading is so fast do we even need a bar. Perhaps a spinning circle is better to show activity. 3 Is there any specific requirements. Ie. Legal, asf logo requirement. My thought, its unlikely we have legal requirement as its not even up long enough for users to read in order to adhere to. My contribution in this conversation is to stand in the user's shoes. Think little sister or mom. Do they read that? Is it foreign concept? Do they care? Should they really care? If we cut out text and objects that don't really matter, when it comes time to present the user with something that does matter they will more likely read it. Please note I am listening to feedback with ears wide open, no comment is a stupid comment. I will place feedback into the application screens wiki page I started. Samer On Mar 25, 2013 8:59 AM, "Louis Suárez-Potts" <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 13-03-25, at 07:41 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The new-ish splashcreen improves on the old, which had the charm of > being written in not-quite-colloquial English. But now its as charming as a > gap toothed smile. Things are missing. > >> > >> So: > >> > >> NOW: > >> > >> Copyright © 2012 Apache Software Foundation. > >> All rights reserved. > >> > >> This product was created by Apache Software Foundation, based on Apache > OpenOffice. > >> Apache OpenOffice acknowledges all community members, especially those > mentioned at <credits url>. > >> > > > > Or just drop the 2nd paragraph. You can't click on the link in the > > splash screen, right? And it is not up long enough for anyone to > > write it down. We can cover that info in Help/About. > > > > -Rob > > Suits me. > > louis > > > >> — > >> > >> IMPROVED: > >> > >> Copyright © 2012 Apache Software Foundation. > >> All rights reserved. > >> > >> This product, Apache OpenOffice, was created by The Apache Software > Foundation and is based on code hosted by the ASF. > >> We recognize the contributions of the members constituting the Apache > OpenOffice Project and in particular credit those mentioned at > >> > >> -- > >> > >> -louis > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
