Re: Future of desktop splash screens - some thoughts

[janne <jan moren lucs lu se>]

fre 2004-10-15 klockan 10:33 +0100 skrev Iain *:
> > Particularly if you consider that the splash screen serves no useful
> > purpose anyway.
> 
> Yeah, I've been considering proposing to remove the icons from it,
> because really they don't serve much purpose. Unless there's a
> problem, do you really need to know that something called "nautius"
> and something else called "gnome-panel" have been started? (what are
> they anyway, and why do they start up?)

The argument in favour is of course giving the user feedback that the
startup is progressing. Make gnome startup fast enough and the need is
gone.



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