Re: Splash screens: a summary

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>]

jferrer ieeesb etsit upm es (2000-10-26 at 1404.04 +0200):
> As William Kendrik has said there is already an application
> which does almost everything that has been said. It's name is
> Xalf (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~altic/projects/xalf/)

Damn, a thing like this one should be in all distros (Hey, any
packager reading this?). We talking days and days, and it already
exists... and does near all we said. Downloading to test it
personally. From the page, I guess it just need improvements, like
being able to disable it from a graphical way, instead of using
NO_XALF.

> Which one is used should be configurable from Xalf's capplet, but we
> should provide a nice default, don't you think?

Xalf one is the fake window system, that seems to be the less
obstrusive of all them.

> Talking about configuration, I believe there should exist an option in the
> capplet to change the behaviour of all the apps. This way if you don't
> like the default behaviour you can change it in all apps easily (not
> having to go app by app).
> 
> Then apps could have a configuration such as this one:
> 	(x) Use global launch feedback
> 	( ) Use particular feedback
> 	  	[ ] Use splash screen
> 		[ ] Show clock at the cursor
> 		[ ] Show task entry

        [ ] Show star

> 
> (with better labels off course ;-)

A copy of the Xalf capplet functions, for each app, running under
app's Prefererences. Maybe add an "Use this image as splash screen /
Use default splash screen" so user can choose. But all optional, we do
not want to overload coders or users.

GSR