Re: [Usability] Removing GNOME splash screens?

[David Christian Berg <david sipsolutions net>]

On Sa, 2004-10-16 at 14:20 -0300, Leonardo Santagada wrote:
>   Gnome HIG says we shouldn't put version information in title bars,
> and let it only on the about for release version, so I think that it
> shouldn't show on the splash.
>   Second, now with dbus we should start thinking in writting the
> messages to dbus stream, so in ubuntu or other distros who will have a
> dbus bootsplash can show it there. This way from start of you linux
> system to full desktop loaded you will receive all the information in
> one place, not kernel to console, init to vt1 or some bootsplash and
> then gnome to its own splashscreen. 3 Diferent methods of seeing
> information is very bad for usability.

Good call!
But right now it leaves me wondering about gdm, since this has to be
presented to the user between boot and session loading.