Issue 5642

Summary:	Wishlist: Progress bar at the Splash Screen
Product:	ui	Reporter:	rsff <rsff>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	falko.tesch
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	issues@ui <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, lohmaier
Version:	OOo 1.0.0	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description rsff 2002-06-07 13:05:18 UTC

Hey guys (again), 
 
Well, I've read some reviews, and heard some comments about how long it takes 
Openoffice to Load and how fast it is after it loads. . . . :-). Well, I personally think its 
not so much a speed problem, but a visual problem.  
 
My suggestion to make it seem faster would be to add a Progress Bar at the Splash 
Screen, much the way the Gimp, Corel Draw and PageMaker) do. It gives a Â¨I'm 
thinkingÂ¨ look to the start of the program, making it look at lot nicer as well. 
 
Also, the Splash Screen can be stamped by the Mouse during the loading process 
(it does in my RedHat Linux with KDE Workstation). I find that aestheticly anoying as 
hell. It makes it seem like the whole program is poorly coded (and I'm absolutely 
sure its not!!!!). But its one of those details that just makes a difference. . . . .  
 
Great job! 
Fabio.

Comment 1 Joost Andrae 2002-06-07 14:34:09 UTC

Joost->Falco: reassigned as RFE to you...

Comment 2 Frank Schönheit 2002-06-07 15:21:32 UTC

just my 2 cents: don't know if a progress bar is that good (besides
that it's difficult to know what percentage is already done), but
something like "doint this currently", "doing that currently" (similar
to for instance Netscape 4.5x or some graphics programs) perhaps could
not hurt ...

Comment 3 rcasha 2002-07-05 17:29:02 UTC

My main issue with the splash screen is that it's a "stay-on-top"  
window (at least on Linux/KDE), so I cannot continue working, or  
reading the screen contents etc, until OO is fully loaded. It would  
be much less annoying if I could click on another window and  
continue working until the OO window appears.

Comment 4 klee 2003-02-16 14:03:59 UTC

The problem that the splash screen it always on top is issue 4133.

Comment 5 fa 2003-07-25 01:41:27 UTC

Closing as fixed because OOo 1.1 has a progress bar on the splash screen.  If you feel 
this has not been resolved satisfactorily, please re-open this issue with your 
comments.

Comment 6 lohmaier 2005-08-20 17:15:55 UTC

really closing.