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From: "Harry Vennik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> that's not a bad idea at all; you may make the main window "a splash"...
>> With this I just mean all the thing a splash would do "show an image,
>> display some text) would be done in the main window.
> In practice that approximates what Karel was saying already.
yes ;)
>> I don't think showing the menus when the window is just shown would be
>> needed, it would be even bad; users may try to choose "connect" while
>> data
>> is still loading.
> Just have the menus shown, but have anything that is not available yet
> greyed
> out.
this is just a graphic issue... I'd like it without the menus, and show them
when they're loaded or optionally when they're ready. But this is just a
matter of tastes...
>> I think an image with some text ("loading this...", "loading that...")
>> would be perfectly ok.
> Is a user interested in knowing what an app does exactly when starting?
Well, I do... but probably I'm not the typical user
> I
> don't think so. Only if it appears to be taking a long time, a user wants
> to
> know if it is still going actually, or it got stuck somewhere.
Yes, but what's wrong with the text? it's showing that something is
happening and it doesn't require any further operations while...
> So the best is
> to have a progress bar showing some animation (like usual on Mac a.o.)
> that
> indicates how far we got, and if the process is still going on (if it got
> stuck, the animation would stop).
...a progress bar need the program to have loaded enough graphic libs (if
you want it to be nice), calculate how much it takes before it ends, etc (so
if you ever would like to add some steps more for the bootstrap, you would
have probably to edit the code to make the bar reflect the actual number)
moreover if the program really get stuck the user can only say "oh, gosh,
it's stuck" and nothing more... I mean, maybe he would like to know what's
wrong... and if he bug report "he's stuck on "reading config..." instead of
"it's stuck at 20%" it would be more helpful for you, too...
maybe a combo of the two?
> If that config parsing appers to be a problem, we can always move the
> 'needed
> early' config like those positions into a special config file which
> becomes
> loaded first. We can show the window then, and proceed loading the rest of
> the config, and do whatever we need to.
That's all additional work for you, guys... ;)
bye
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