Markus wrote >One question: is the splash-screen really needed? Adrien wrote: >I don't see the point of a splash screen.
I completely agree that it is useless in the sense of loading screen showing the progress for the standard pharo image. Maybe it makes more sense for the "slower" TrueType image where a progress bar currently shows the font updates. But this is not possible since the Squeak VM does not (yet) support an updating splash progress in the native splash window driven by Smalltalk code. But a splash can also be done "image side only" anyway. But that's not the point. I suggested to provide a splash screen more from the branding/marketing point of view - even if it is technically useless. At least I want to know what others think about it. A splash screen typically shows the Logo and some version information and people rember/recognize/identify the software through that. Some applications have an option to disable the splash or show it only on the first startup. Eclipse for instance uses a slightly modified splash screen theme for each yearly full release (Europa, Ganymede, ...) - nice idea since the user knows which one is started when the disk is full with different versions. Sure we should drop the splash screen from the technical point of view - but it would be a nice idea to have the welcome screen of each Pharo release with a slightly modified theme to see if it is a core, developer image, ... We dont have to clone native apps/Java IDE's - but at least we can learn a little bit about branding/marketing and how good design can attract more people. Take another example - will you find a Smalltalk IDE with good looking Wizards these days? >From the Smalltalkers point of view (knowing about #subclass: messages) it's >technically useless and will bloat the image - but I've seen many newbies blaming Smalltalk to be that complicated the first time they just click around and search for the Class/Package wizard. Squeak is also not very supportive if one needs help - there is a help menu but no real help/documentation. That does not mean we should have the splash screen or spend the whole day implementing Wizards - but at least we should discuss and think about what the first impression for others/non Smalltalkers will be and how we can help them to take first hurdles and enjoy the power of Smalltalk... Bye Torsten -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
