What I would suggest is to do something similar to what, e.g.,
Office 2003 and Adobe Acrobat (not Adobe Reader) do. They open
a closeable pane along the right border, with some tasks you
are likely to perform when starting the application, e.g., New,
Search, Help, a list of recently used files and so on. And it
should of course be configurable if you want this pane at startup.
//Peter
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> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Visser, Martin
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 01:38
> To: Ethereal development
> Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] New welcome pane
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> 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-----
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> > [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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