66898 - Startup status text needs polishing (active splash screen)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2001010608, Mac OS 9.0

To reproduce:
* Start Mozilla for the first time. (For the full effect, use a slow computer.)
* Watch the splash screen.

What you see:
* `Starting up...' <http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/lib/mac/
MacMemoryAllocator/test/MemoryTest.cpp#47>
* Several instances of `Registering native component {foo}'
* Several instances of `Registering JS component {bar}'
* `Component registration finished'
  <http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpcom/components/
nsComponentManager.cpp#2074>

What you should see:
* `Checking available memory...'
* Several instances of `Registering native components ... {foo}'
* Several instances of `Registering JS components ... {bar}'
* `Starting up...'

The last string is the most important of these -- since it is visible for 
considerably longer than any of the others, it would be more reassuring if it 
said `Starting up...' than if it said `Component registration finished'.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

mpt: the "starting up..." text is in the dialog resource, and has nothing to do 
with memory checking. What's going on at that point is NS_InitXPCOM (reading the 
registry file etc).

I agree we need better status text. After autoreg, we also need to show progress 
for reading default prefs, loading libraries etc.

Comment 2

[Ray Whitmer]

Reassigning to default xpcom owner

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

reassigning kandrot bugs.

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

over to UI Design for suggestions.  

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

to default.  assign back there is an idea of what strings should be displayed to
the user.  

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Er, the default UI Design component assignee provided suggested strings in the 
original bug report. Back to XPCOM. :-)

(The only change is that, given what Simon said, `Checking available memory...' 
should be `Looking for components...'.)

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I'm going to be working on this.

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

0.9.9

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Blocked by 35866, which is 1.0

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

Moving Netscape owned 0.9.9 and 1.0 bugs that don't have an nsbeta1, nsbeta1+,
topembed, topembed+, Mozilla0.9.9+ or Mozilla1.0+ keyword.  Please send any
questions or feedback about this to [e-mail].  You can search for
"Moving bugs not scheduled for a project" to quickly delete this bugmail.

Comment 11

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

I really believe Mozilla needs to have a splash screen with feedback on every OS.
A splash screen with feedback will distract the user from the actual 'waiting
for Mozilla to load' so that load times will feel shorter.

Comment 12

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
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Comment 13

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Mac OS X no longer has a splash. Polish is required XP, on platforms that have a
splash.

Comment 14

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Do any products show text any more?

Comment 15

[Robert Kaiser]

The splash screen isn't supported at all any more on the "new toolkit" platform that all Mozilla apps are using now, so we can't fix this.