Re: Splash screens (Re: Arlo, a little QA...)

[Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas Mailhot email enst fr>]

Le jeu, 26 oct 2000 00:55:20, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia
Romero a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot email enst fr (2000-10-26 at 0046.14
> +0200):
> > A window is not a good answer because you'll allways
> find a
> > window manager that will give it more importance than
> it's
> > due.
> 
> I remember something about a fake window, that appears in
> the task
> list but is not a window. Correct me if I am wrong. BTW,
> we should not
> care about the tech part, but about idea: an informative
> entry in the
> task list, IMO.

Or else, perhaps even a dedicated applet that displays
mini-icons of apps being launched.

You can animate these icons or make them change during the
different launch stages, add them a tooltip giving the app
name and its launch stage, and make clicking on them display
the actual launch splash-screen (which is no longer an
inconvenience because it's now only displayed on *request*).

An app could check if this applet is running, and if it is
so and « hide splash screens » have been toggled in the
control center display them only when the mini-launch-icon
is
clicked.

This, of course is a nice dream of mine. Before this a
simple « hide splash screens » control center toggle would
be enough for me.

-- 
Nicolas