Re: Future of desktop splash screens - some thoughts

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Havoc Pennington">

> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:49 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > - Is it worth the effort? Is changing splash screens a common case?
> 
> I'd say no, if you listed all the prefs you could think of, ranked them in
> order of importance, and say N prefs can fit in a reasonable-sized set of
> control panels; this would be ranked well below the Nth-most- important
> item.

Note that the splash screen could be defined as part of the metatheme (with
or without controls to modify it in the Theme > Details box), so that it
would not add significantly to the amount of visible preferences.

- Jeff

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