I haven't seen the new screen, but I imagine something like the attached
(which is the welcome screen for a 7 year old version of Corel Photo
Paint) would be useful. This way it is "task oriented". Also note it
allows the advance user to quickly make it no longer appear.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ulf Lamping
> Sent: Monday, 14 February 2005 10:15 AM
> To: Ethereal development
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New welcome pane
>
> Graeme Hewson wrote:
>
> > Ulf Lamping wrote:
> >
> >>> Could the welcome be in a popup?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't see any benefit of this, but you might explain the
> difference.
> >
> >
> > It's a matter of aesthetics. It looks ugly to me to have a widget
> > with just two buttons taking up all that room on the
> desktop. (I have
> > a fairly large default window size in Ethereal.)
> >
> Me too, I'm using 1400*1024 on a laptop, which is looking
> somewhat ugly right now, yes.
>
> As I said before, if noone really complains about the general
> way of this pane, the design *has* to be improved (it was
> about an hour hacking to bring up the pane and yes it's still a hack).
>
> The current design isn't what I want to keep, it was only a
> way to show the idea.
>
> Regards, ULFL
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