Welcome dialog prevents immediate use of application

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 24 October 2012 13:27, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

That's cool, especially the Community Status/News is 'my' way, I have
it since since 2.4
(http://kexi-project.org/pics/2.4/rc1/kexi-2.4-status-pane.png)

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