[Dev] Bug #4082: Welcome note should be displayed in the DV on startup.

Katie Capps Parlante capps at osafoundation.org
Sun Nov 20 15:54:36 PST 2005


To wrap up this thread...

Pieter's arguments win the day and we're going with a welcome note 
displayed on startup in 0.6. I withdraw my contrary opinion, and we're 
quite close to startup time goals (even on mac).

Cheers,
Katie

Pieter Hartsook wrote:
> I think it is useful for a new user to see an already crafted item in
> the initial view. It gives a focus and meaning to the context and
> allows very simple discovery of significant parts of the UI (detail
> view particulars of an event) that otherwise might take some futzing
> around and some frustration before the user would see the same
> richness of information.
> 
> It might save 3 sec. on initial startup, but might save several
> minutes of the user's time jump-starting their understanding of
> Chandler calendar functions. I vote to keep the initial event, even if
> it slows things down on 1st start.
> 
> Pieter


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