>on 1/31/00 11:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> For those interested, the look-and-feel discussion group for KDE on
>> Linux recently discussed the issue of splash screens. They more or less
>> unanimously threatened grievous bodily harm to anyone who used splash
>> screens :-)
>
>The biggest gripe about splash screens is the annoying way human-loathing
>Windows designers use them: Too often they stay up until the user
>explicitely dismisses them.
Perhaps, a fair utilisation of a splash screen is to use it for a feedback
to the user while the system initialise its parameters (see adobe
softwares).
H. Chaudet
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