Re: Removing GNOME splash screens?

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Freitag, den 15.10.2004, 19:46 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair:
> Am Freitag, den 15.10.2004, 16:14 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair:
> > Am Freitag, den 15.10.2004, 06:19 -0400 schrieb Ricardo Veguilla:
> > > On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 19:00 +0900, janne wrote:
> > > > fre 2004-10-15 klockan 10:33 +0100 skrev Iain *:
> > > > > > Particularly if you consider that the splash screen serves no useful
> > > > > > purpose anyway.
> 
> > I now feel like having a splash screen is like looking at your watch
> > while waiting for the bus - it won't drive faster, you're just
> > disappointed that it's late and get upset.
> > 
> > What about removing it completely? Do we really need "Welcome to
> > GNOME"-fashioned branding?
> 
> The attached patch should do the trick for GNOME session. It is a first
> shot. I'm not sure whether utils.[ch] is suitable for GUI-related
> helpers. Comments, suggestions?

Hrm the symptoms from bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118063 - which is mentioned in
a line marked for removal - talks about delay problems I can now
reproduce both with and without the gdk_set_sm_client_id call. Something
weird seems to be going on.

regs,
 Chris