[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Avoiding killing slow-starting applications

[From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On 10/21/05, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 06:10:49PM -0200, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
>
> > Please use a thread to load your data. Other wise user may think that
> > it broke/hang!
>
> Why? We have startup notification for that. The application is useless
> until the model has been trained, and spending time generating a splash
> screen is time that could be better spent.

That's bad usability and generating a splash screen isn't expensive at
all... you don't need a fancy image, just a GtkLabel.
    If user launched your application and it doesn't show anything,
he'll think that it failed and will try again. Visual feedback _IS_
important, so give it as soon as possible.

Also, I don't know your application since you didn't say much about
it, but there isn't any way to cache this "training" so it doesn't
have to be done every time?

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