Re: Future of desktop splash screens - some thoughts

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Donnerstag, den 14.10.2004, 20:56 +0200 schrieb Samuel Abels:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:49, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > For that reason, I've concluded to write a little utility (attached, not
> > yet cleaned up) for manipulating the gconf settings, that could be
> > included in gcc; it comes with a built-in splash screen preview.
> 
> Haven't tried this out, but gtweakui seems to do just this. Probably
> worth a look:
> 
> http://gtweakui.sourceforge.net/screen.php

I've once written something similar (still lurking around in my private
repository). It was a hack that indexed and categorized all kinds of
GConf keys (from static arrays, software categories like
"Office"/"Gnumeric", "File Management", etc.), just like gTweakUI. What
we need is a proper GUI - the average user doesn't want to »tweak«
anything, he simply wants to have a nice GUI in the proper place.
Unfortunately GNOME still has many rough edges compared to other DEs.

regs,
 Chris