Hi, On 13-03-26, at 24:41 , Samer Mansour <samer...@gmail.com> 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. If loading is so fast do we even need a bar. > Perhaps a spinning circle is better to show activity. My OOo loads in probably less than 6 seconds. (SSD). > > 3 Is there any specific requirements. Ie. Legal, asf logo requirement. > My thought, its unlikely we have legal requirement as its not even up long > enough for users to read in order to adhere to. Hypertext was created for a reason….. > > My contribution in this conversation is to stand in the user's shoes. > Think little sister or mom. Do they read that? Is it foreign concept? Do > they care? Should they really care? Not all do and not all ought and not all who ought to will nor will they find what they ought to be caring about even if they didn't know they ought to. So minimal is better and pointers best and the signified at the end of the predicated sentence all the nicer that it's terminal. > > If we cut out text and objects that don't really matter, when it comes time > to present the user with something that does matter they will more likely > read it. > In your dreams ? :-) > Please note I am listening to feedback with ears wide open, no comment is a > stupid comment. I will place feedback into the application screens wiki > page I started. This is a splash screen. No one With A Life, unless they are really bored at 1 AM and have been seeing the damn thing, in its erratic evolution, for the last dozen years, pays attention to it.** In fact, People With A Life remove it, at least those who are so inclined to do so and can. The less the better. What you have suggested is useful and worth investigating—we've always thought that a good endpoint is useful for increasing the community, eg., John's Why? page of 2009, but it can be pointed to by the splash screen, along with the credits. That's where we should have the encouraging information, a la Firefox and many other Foss artefacts. Indeed, being as clever and engaging as we are wont to be is always good—but in the right place, yes? best louis ** Exception: Back around 2006, or so, Sun replaced the fairly innocuous if imperfectly colloquial splash screen showing OpenOffice.org with an aggressively big Sun banner that overshadowed any pip-squeak community notice. This did not go over well, at least not with the "community." That was probably the last time the splash was so attended to. Besides that, of course, many redistributes of OOo replaced the screen .png with their own marketing efforts. No doubt with brilliant success, as we can see. > > Samer > On Mar 25, 2013 8:59 AM, "Louis Suárez-Potts" <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On 13-03-25, at 07:41 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> >> 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 Software Foundation. >>>> All rights reserved. >>>> >>>> This product was created by Apache Software Foundation, based on Apache >> OpenOffice. >>>> Apache OpenOffice acknowledges all community members, especially those >> mentioned at <credits url>. >>>> >>> >>> Or just drop the 2nd paragraph. You can't click on the link in the >>> splash screen, right? And it is not up long enough for anyone to >>> write it down. We can cover that info in Help/About. >>> >>> -Rob >> >> Suits me. >> >> louis >>> >>>> — >>>> >>>> IMPROVED: >>>> >>>> Copyright © 2012 Apache Software Foundation. >>>> All rights reserved. >>>> >>>> This product, Apache OpenOffice, was created by The Apache Software >> Foundation and is based on code hosted by the ASF. >>>> We recognize the contributions of the members constituting the Apache >> OpenOffice Project and in particular credit those mentioned at >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> -louis >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
