I also think the splash screen should be kept. Pascal
2010/6/9 Israel Chauca F. <israelvar...@fastmail.fm>: > On Jun 2, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: >> >>>> that button. >>>> 4. The only option is to force-quit the program. >>> At least, the smaller window dialogue should disappear. Does it? >>> This sort of confusion may be the result of some of our wiser friends to no >>> longer show scid's start-up banner by default. >>> Starting scid may actually take quite some time. Are you sure that you do >>> not kill the process while scid is still booting up (observe memory >>> consumption or something like that in a process monitor)? >> >> Ok, you spelled out my concerns about disabling the start up dialogue. Can >> we get some opinion about this point? IMHO it is a very sensible thing. IMHO >> it is valuable especially as it displays the texts it does. But loud >> complaints about usability made me to hide it by default. >> >> BUT: it should only be hidden in the CVS version not to the last release. >> Therefore John should see it, not? > > I just helped a user that had permissions problems with his $HOME and Scid > would quit because of this, I was able to help him just because he took a > screenshot of the splash window before Scid quit. Since he couldn't change > any options using the menu and unless the errors would have appeared in the > terminal if I had instructed him to run Scid from there, I wouldn't have been > able to help him without the splash window. > > I think that having the splash window can be helpful for problems where Scid > doesn't finish the start-up process, like the one I mentioned before. > > I vote to keep it. > > Israel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
