Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-26 Thread Samer Mansour
I've taken the feedback down, I will follow up on this. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Application+And+Launcher Agree less is better. I think there is a better way to recognize contributors such as a hyperlink in the about screen. Much like credits, it can be update

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-26 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 26/03/2013 15:05, Rob Weir a écrit : But I think we should align with the user's thinking at this point. They've launched OpenOffice, presumable *to do a task*. They are not researching the license. They are not looking to find out the list of OpenOffice contributors. They have work to do a

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-26 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 3/26/13 3:05 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Samer Mansour wrote: >> 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. >>

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Samer Mansour wrote: > 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

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 13-03-26, at 24:41 , Samer Mansour wrote: > I think we should start first with what the purpose of the splash screen is: > > 1 Welcome users. Hi I'm OpenOffice. /me is sour this morning and particularly dyspeptic toward wannabe imitations of Clippy. :-) > > 2 Provide loading progress.

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-25 Thread Samer Mansour
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 lo

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-25 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 13-03-25, at 07:41 , Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts 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.

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts 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 So

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 13-03-24, at 22:53 , "Marco A.G.Pinto" wrote: > Hi! > > Remember that the year should be 2013 and not 2012? yes, there's that, too. And if all goes according to no plan at all, next year will likely be 2014. > > Kind regards, > >Marco A.G.Pinto > >

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-24 Thread Marco A.G.Pinto
Hi! Remember that the year should be 2013 and not 2012? Kind regards,   >Marco A.G.Pinto     On 25-03-2013 02:08, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: The new-ish splashcreen improves on the o

updating Splashscreen

2013-03-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
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