Re: [Inkscape-devel] Winner: About screen contest
An option to turn it off in preferences would be fine with me, but it auto-disappears when the GUI loads... So I'm not getting why folks think it would be a burden? It's not like it would add any notable time to the startup. Maybe a fraction of a second? Part of good UX is to let the user know what's happening if there is a wait involved. The faster you show the user something, the faster the program feels. This isn't just some tradition, and it's certainly not just a Windows thing. :)
My 2p. -C
On 1 Dec 2016 9:34 pm, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 07:53:48PM +0100, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2016, 13:36:13 CET schrieb Martin Owens:
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 14:23 +0000, C R wrote:
Will this graphic be featured on the loading screen as well (when it's implemented)?
Yes.
The about screen graphic will also be featured on the inkscape.org
home
page and on some merchandise in the shop. The shop stuff will have to be tested to get it right.
How long does Inkscape take to start for you? Here it's coming up
basically
instantaneous. So I wonder if a loading screen is really needed, or if
the
work to add that should maybe be spent in fixing slowness in startup
instead,
like caching icons, querying fonts in a separate thread, ...
Inkscape also starts up acceptably fast for me on my system, and I would not like to see it burdened with a startup screen. But I know it is considered traditional and fairly common on Windows. I am -1 to adding it in general (I'd rather see attention going into speeding up the load), but would be open to a compromise of having a build option to enable/disable it, and leave it to packagers to decide whether to have it or not for the platform in particular.
Bryce
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Here's a good article which helps explain the mentality and effect of progress indicators on the user experience (loading screens fall under this category) - https://www.nngroup.com/articles/progress-indicators/
On 1 Dec 2016 9:54 pm, "C R" <cajhne@...400...> wrote:
An option to turn it off in preferences would be fine with me, but it auto-disappears when the GUI loads... So I'm not getting why folks think it would be a burden? It's not like it would add any notable time to the startup. Maybe a fraction of a second? Part of good UX is to let the user know what's happening if there is a wait involved. The faster you show the user something, the faster the program feels. This isn't just some tradition, and it's certainly not just a Windows thing. :)
My 2p. -C
On 1 Dec 2016 9:34 pm, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 07:53:48PM +0100, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2016, 13:36:13 CET schrieb Martin Owens:
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 14:23 +0000, C R wrote:
Will this graphic be featured on the loading screen as well (when it's implemented)?
Yes.
The about screen graphic will also be featured on the inkscape.org
home
page and on some merchandise in the shop. The shop stuff will have to be tested to get it right.
How long does Inkscape take to start for you? Here it's coming up
basically
instantaneous. So I wonder if a loading screen is really needed, or if
the
work to add that should maybe be spent in fixing slowness in startup
instead,
like caching icons, querying fonts in a separate thread, ...
Inkscape also starts up acceptably fast for me on my system, and I would not like to see it burdened with a startup screen. But I know it is considered traditional and fairly common on Windows. I am -1 to adding it in general (I'd rather see attention going into speeding up the load), but would be open to a compromise of having a build option to enable/disable it, and leave it to packagers to decide whether to have it or not for the platform in particular.
Bryce
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