On 24 October 2012 13:27, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@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) -- 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
