Welcome dialog prevents immediate use of application

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Paul Gideon Dann 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.
>

I had forgotten yet another welcome screen we've created, the one for 
Krita Sketch: http://www.valdyas.org/~boud/krita_sketch_start.png.

And then there's calligra active with a nepomuk-based start screen.

Boudewijn