Re: PSPP-BUG: Small usability bugs in variable view.

[John Darrington]

The splash screen is designed to appear as soon as possible after
the program is invoked and to disappear 0.5 of a second after
the program is initialised and the first window has appeared.

On some machines this can be almost instantaneous.  On others it
can take several seconds.  As I see it, the splash screen's 
primary purpose caters to the latter case.  It provides some
confidence on slower systems that something is working, (and 
makes it less obvious that the system is slow to initialise).

J'

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:02:57PM +0000, Charles Johnson wrote:
     
     
     Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 21:54:57 +0200
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     Subject: Re: PSPP-BUG: Small usability bugs in variable view.
     
     On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:40:08PM +0000, Charles Johnson wrote:
          
     >>I have a tablet with an installation of fedora/gnome for testing, 
     >>and usability of PSPP from version 8.5 to snapshotbuild GTK3 greatly 
improved.
      
     >That is usefull to know.  Thanks for the feedback.  Do you think PSPP 
would 
     >ever be seriously used on a tablet?
     
     Yes. PSPP has great potential to be used from a tablet (in the current 
version can use it 
     without many complications). Gtk3 offers many possibilities in this 
regard. Lists of variables
     could be broader, enabling drag-n-drop and especially follow an orthodox 
style for the 
     data sheet (1 click to select and 2 click to edit).
     
     I'm excited about PSPP (isvery fast). I can provide feedback for use in a 
tablet. 
      
     >>This is another issue, but I noticed bug # 45254 closed, but in the 
build 0.8.5-g1a528f 
     >>just a black box looks like splash screen (by less than a second?).
      
          
     >Do you mean that the splash screen never gets filled?   or is it black 
for a second before being filled?
     
     The splash screen does not fill in no time. Only see a black box.
      
     In my little laptop the splash screen appears for less than a second and 
my desktop computer, almost not
     appreciated at all. It's necessary? Better would be a welcome screen.
     
     CJT
     
                                        
                                          

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