On 24 October 2012 13:04, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgid...@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) -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org Qt Certified Specialist | http://qt-project.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
