[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 68957] Add custom image option to the splash screen

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68957

--- Comment #4 from Zeki Bildirici <kobzeci at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
Hi mirek,
> Please don't.
> For one thing, we should strive that the splash screen is seen as little as
> possible (= fast startup) and preferably not at all.

As far as i know, LibreOffice will always have a splash screen since it is a
large program. You may remove the splash screen, btw users can remove it
manually too, but as you know, starting a program and nothing happens in 5
seconds considered as "couldn't start" so splash is there to show the progress.
Also if the code will be perfect and it Lo start in 1 seconds in a new
computer, many users will still wait at least 5-10 seconds depending to their
old hardware and platform as well as desktop environment. 

Additionally, as you said branding, the splash screen is a part of it and imho
it will not be wise to remove it. 

> For another thing, we have an almost unusable Options dialog due to the
> amount of options we have. We should be getting rid of non-vital options,
> not adding them.

What should we understand from "vital"? Do you think that Personas are vital?
Leaving less setting in options is not a good thing. It sounds the GNOME way
and reduces the usability and functionality of the software. Also, it is not
easy and quite possible to determine which setting/functionality is useless,
useless for whom? 

> Thirdly, the splash screen showcases our branding. Allowing customization
> would further diminish our already fractured brand.

On the contrary, it will empower the branding. The LibreOffice logo will not
disappear, it will be in the footer or header.. Anyway, i should note that
people have different tastes, personally whenever it is a decided branding
showcase, i do not like its appearance much, the previous ones were not better
anyway. As we know from the arguments about the 4.1 splash, people have
different ideas, choices, tastes. It is not wrong to let people choice their
own.

> Lastly, I would much rather see the user play with LibreOffice by creating
> something with it rather than tweaking its options.

That's not a good point of view. People already creating work with LibreOffice,
it is a productivity suite/office software and nobody needs to be appreciated
by that. It is no different than changing the wallpaper, and similar to saying
"I rather see people creating something with the computer rather than changing
the wallpaper" is some kind of restriction and intervention.

Best regards,
Zeki

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