Re: Progress bar on startup

[Damien Covey <djcovey softhome net>]

Sean Middleditch wrote:

> This can be done very easily; mozilla/galeon/open-office all use a
> method to make their start-up times faster.  they have a
> program/applet/daemon that is linked to their libraries.
>
> So, making a gqld (gnome quick load daemon) that is linked against all
> major gnome libraries, and starting it somewhere in your init process,
> would solve this problem.  A lot of people would want it off for
> efficiency reasons if they are rarely in gnome.  Others may want it
> running to speed up login.  It will slow down boot up time a bit (if
> it's launched into the background, it at least shouldn't cause a big
> pause - but boot up will still be slowed).
>  
This is the sort of behaviour that I'm talking about.  I think that once 
a user is greeted with the GDM that they shouldn't have to wait for 
Gnome to load.  Obviously when someone starts their machine to an X 
environment they are most likely to be using Gnome.  Perhaps some sort 
of *easy* way for a user to decide whether or not they want to 
"pre-load" gnome on boot?  If they are starting init 5, then preload, 
otherwise dont preload?