Re: splash screen session and theme

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

> > >
> > How about making the splash screen image part of the icon theme?  That 
> > way you can use the icon theme lookup functions to find the file.  This 
> > way the standard splash screen could be part of the "gnome" theme in 
> > gnome-icon-theme, and it would be inherited by all the other gnome icon 
> > themes automatically.  Also, icon themes could choose a splash image 
> > that matched the program icons it displays along the bottom edge while 
> > the session loads.
> 
> If you go down that path, why not make the default desktop background
> part of the icon theme?
> 
> If you went down this path, you'd probably have to rename icon theme to
> "Picture theme" or "Image theme" in all user visible areas (there is a
> _long_ bug about the difference between these 2 and I can't remember
> what the difference is).

Perhaps it would be reasonable to put splash-screen and background-image
in a single Theme page?  I agree that those two seem more closely
related.

-- 
Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>