Welcome dialog prevents immediate use of application

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 24 October 2012 13:04, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Oct 2012 12:51:18 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Maybe, but welcome screens can be made to give much more confidence in the
> application, and to avoid getting in the way of the user's desire to explore:
>
> http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qtcreator-2.6/creator-quick-tour.html
>
> The most important points are:
>
> * Non-modal (although plenty of functionality may be unavailable until the
> user engages with the dialog)
> * Colourful: we want to avoid overworking the logic, reading, information
> processing, etc... part of the user's brain: plenty of large recognisable
> images make it more engaging.

Yes, do you know you don't have to convince me? :) See
http://www.calligra.org/news/first-beta-version-of-the-calligra-suite/attachment/kexi-2-4-startup-new-project/

(Kexi removed its modal Open/Save dialogs in 2.4)

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