On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:24:51PM -0200, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > On 10/21/05, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? We have startup notification for that. The application is useless > > until the model has been trained, and spending time generating a splash > > screen is time that could be better spent. > > That's bad usability and generating a splash screen isn't expensive at > all... you don't need a fancy image, just a GtkLabel. > If user launched your application and it doesn't show anything, > he'll think that it failed and will try again. Visual feedback _IS_ > important, so give it as soon as possible.
We have visual feedback. There's a small window in the top right corner that performs that function. Duplicating it at an application-specific level just reduces interface consistency. > Also, I don't know your application since you didn't say much about > it, but there isn't any way to cache this "training" so it doesn't > have to be done every time? Yes, but it involves rewriting fairly large chunks of the statistics engine. It's certainly on my TODO list. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
