[maemo-developers] Launch image to increase feeling of responsiveness (a la iPhone)

[From: kees.jongenburger at gmail.com]

Hi

I would love to have thumbnails/icons for apps, just so you can make a
nicer launcher.
I dislike the "iphone" like words because it makes it look like they
own the feature.

When I and tired of waiting it is usually when launching gmail.
the think I do in between is to start a second web-browser. How would that look
with the "startup"picks?


greetings

On 3/10/08, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote:
> Mika Yrjölä wrote:
>
> > Then there is also the question of theming; even if the application
> > would have separate skeleton startup images for several themes (eating
> > the precious storage space), consistency still goes out of the window
> > if user installs a new, probably different-looking theme.
>
> One could perhaps do a snapshot on application startup before main loop
> is entered so next startup has updated banner screenshot. This would of
> course slow down startup even more but is one time penalty after each
> theme change.
>
> Still, maybe the effort should be better spent on improving actual
> startup speed ;-) Even current banner is sign of giving up. And it can
> be done. One such example is Application manager. Even on 770 with
> hacker edition it starts below half second, and N800/OS2007 is good too.
> Too bad I need quick startup with Calculator more than with AM :-)
>
> OS2008 is slower (even with higher cpu clock) but let's hope it can be
> improved in next firmware versions, first ones for previous system were
> not exactly fast too.
>
> Frantisek
>
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