Created attachment 64398 [details] Mockup of how it should look. On the first start of LibreOffice on Windows, we display a number of messages. However, they are displayed in the wrong place and in the wrong colour (black - not very visible). Expected: Messages should be displayed above the progress bar, in white (mockup attached). The code for this is ~here: http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/desktop/source/splash/splash.cxx#611
In your mockup you put the text in a very big size to my taste -- I'd prefer if the text remains at the same size as it is currently, to avoid issues with long translations and such.
Still [Reproducible] with parallel installation of Master "LOdev 3.7.0.0.alpha0+ - ENGLISH UI / German Locale [Build ID: b45834b]" {tinderbox: @6, pull time 2012-09-13 00:10:35} on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit). Steps how to reproduce if you do not see the messages after Installation: 1. Rename user profile (you find the place in program subfolder in bootstrap.ini) 2. Launch LibO > Splash screen with progress bar appears: Bug: Initialisation info appears at te bottom of the splash screen and exceeds the splash screen. I think suggestion in Mockup is ok, visibility also should be tested with high contrast OS and LibO. This bug does not cause any problems (or does someone really read that?), but from marketing point of view it's a disaster. The first thing a new LibO user will see does not work correctly. @Ivan: Please set Status to ASSIGNED and add yourself to "Assigned To" if you accept this Bug or forward the Bug if it's not your turf. Although we have more serious problems - do you see a chance to get that into 3.6.2?
Same problem on Linux.
*** Bug 54636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The same on Mac OS X, see bug 54636 for details.
Interesting: on Linux there is a different splash screen implementation, which does not show the messages at all :) http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/desktop/unx/source/splashx.c#693
Ivan Timofeev committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b14073218ea28a5bf05cd639e30215787d67114c fdo#52268: splash: change color and position of messages The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Ivan Timofeev committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-6": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=71b584680e4527283ccc4fa14169bc7d28d32344&g=libreoffice-3-6 fdo#52268: splash: change color and position of messages It will be available in LibreOffice 3.6.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
@ Ivan Timofeev: Thank you very much for fixing this issue! VERIFIED as FIXED with LOdev 3.7.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: dd11a1e; pull time: 2012-10-04 12:52:50) on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Intel). Messages now appear as suggested in Astron’s mockup (white text above the progress bar), with smaller text like suggested by Fitoschido. Overall impression is much better now. Nice!