Welcome dialog prevents immediate use of application

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 24 October 2012 13:18, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Oct 2012 13:12:08 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>> Yes, do you know you don't have to convince me? :) See
>> http://www.calligra.org/news/first-beta-version-of-the-calligra-suite/attach
>> ment/kexi-2-4-startup-new-project/
>>
>> (Kexi removed its modal Open/Save dialogs in 2.4)
>
> Wow, that looks so much better.  Excellent work!  I have a vague memory of
> having seen that in the original announcement.  I hope that's something all
> the applications can eventually benefit from too :)

There are two things, contextual (tabbed) toolbar, similar and the
'modern' modeless ui.

It was first seen here http://blogs.kde.org/2011/04/06/kde-5-menu

See also the old video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzv9M2_sLQc

As for the adoption in other apps, the idea was presented at the 1st
Calligra sprint.
I know we cannot afford to do that now (maybe in the meantime Qt 5
port will what simplifies a lot of things with QML 2). This just
isn't the top priority.
But I agree something shall be changed, so if I had to vote, not
displaying welcome dialogs if not really needed would be an easy, 'instant'
fix.

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