Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)

Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by Gualdrapo on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:30AM (#29186163)

> Remember how the original Mac used to plop down icons of all your system extensions one-by-one along the bottom of the screen, in the order that it loaded them, which helped you know how long it would take to boot, and figure out which one crashed your system?

Iirc Haiku does that in its splash screen. KDE sort of did at some point in KDE 4.x.

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Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by darkwater on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:57AM (#29187857)

> KDE sort of did at some point in KDE 4.x.

I would swear it was KDE 3.x in its splash screen.

https://cdn.pling.com/img//hive/content-pre1/14801-1.png

The icons at the bottom would start in grey scale and be colored as KDE was loading.

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Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by Kwpolska on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:21AM (#29188086)

KDE 4 also used this style of splash screen (with the icons fading into view): https://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/kde4-sp...

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Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by darkwater on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:23AM (#29189704)

Yeah, now I remember, I removed KDE 4 and its clocks [1] from my memory (it actually made me switch to Gnome and never went back)

[1] basically the initial 4.0 release (which was a rewrite from scratch for the UI/Desktop component) was not usable at all as a daily driver, lots of crashes and missing features. The only thing that worked well from the start were the clock widgets, and they were showcased a lot in screenshot. I think it even reached some kind of meme status by KDE 4.1. But I cannot find any blog post / rant from the time, my search-fu is not that good.

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