Re: [Usability] Splash screens and startup notification

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 20:47 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> > I/We should file a bug and propose an addition to
> > the Guidelines strongly
> > discouraging the use of splash screens?
>
> Yes, definitely.

I've just added some preliminary text to the draft version to this
effect.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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