[4840] in testers
Re: Program launch feedback and launch speed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Tue Jun 19 11:05:20 2001
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To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
cc: testers@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:02:23 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
> OK, so, this is my dumb non-gnome hat, but one choice would be to
> print a line in the console window, like "Starting programname...".
> Is there a more gnome-esque [is there a better adjective] way to do
> that? A one-line scrolling text widget inside the panel would also
> do this admirably, I'd think.
Well, the xalf package allows you to have a splashscreen start up that
goes away automagically when the program itself starts. Printing a
line to the console has the problem that then the user has to go and
make the console go away, and from what I've observed, they tend to
find this to be annoying.
xalf can also add an entry to the tasklist (its "invisible window"
approach) but I doubt most people would even notice that. The
scrolling widget idea is interesting, assuming there's room for it on
the panel (on my small screen at home here, there's really not) and
assuming someone is free to code that up from scratch. (Heh.)
-B.
