Welcome dialog prevents immediate use of application

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 24 October 2012 12:05, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

[..]
>> More importantly, though, the dialog presents me with an immediate feeling
>> of
>> frustration: "I just want to *play* with this application; why won't it
>> let me
>> in?"
>
>
> Well, that's another thing: you want to *play* with the application, the
> screen is designed for people who want *work* with the application.

I understand this differently, "I just want to *play* with this
application" as a desire have positive feelings (pleasure) while
working with the programs.

[..]

> Well, I can imagine that for some applications, like words or sheets, it
> would be best to have it off by default, for other applications (stage,
> krita) it might be best on by default.

Agreed.

I also considered this for Kexi - to show empty tabular view like in
spreadsheets, to enable data entry *immediately*, but for this I need
ad-hoc table creation, which is only
a nice dream for now. That would further lower the barrier for users,
what's the the goal for Kexi and interesting study in itself.

Most probably the wrong feeling comes from the fact that many apps in
both MS Office and Libre Office skip welcome screens.

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