[jira] [Commented] (CAY-894) CM Usability: Welcome Screen (Panel)

["Andrus Adamchik (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andrus Adamchik commented on CAY-894:
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Haven't noticed that this task was already closed. Just opened a new one - CAY-2160. There's a pull request committed to master already that contains our new graphics and improvements such as replacing $HOME with ~/

> CM Usability: Welcome Screen (Panel)
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CAY-894
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-894
>             Project: Cayenne
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Modeler
>            Reporter: Thomas Bernhard
>            Assignee: Ari Maniatis
>             Fix For: 3.0M5, 3.0
>
>         Attachments: 894.zip, welcome-screen.jpg, welcome.afphoto, welcome.psd
>
>
> Add a Welcome Screen (Panel) to CM when no Project is open.
> This makes any application look professional, and it gives new users confidence (in contrast to a big blank green screen), and it's of course all about the "first impression" :).
> This method is practiced even by IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ, but also by any desktop application that wants to look professional, e.g. "http://www.productiveme.com/doc/tutorial/1.png" )



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