RE: Progress bar on startup

["bharat tewari" <bharat tewari wipro com>]

hey jonathan
try it on a solaris desktop ultra 10 with 333MHz and you would then notice the usefulness of this progress bar. I mean it takes almost 35+ sec. to login into a solaris desktop and the splash screen remains almost for 7-8 sec. The progress bar seems a bit patchy but atleast on solaris boxes it tells the user that something is happening :)
So i would not like it to be removed however if there is something to put the splash first and then do all the startups like the g-s-d, sound, gnome program initialization, session management etc. later would be atleast really a boost in the solaris environment ( and perhaps on some other slower h/w environments). Atleast that would make the desktop response seem much faster than what it is currently.
regards
bharat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Blandford [mailto:jrb redhat com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 2:08 AM
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Progress bar on startup
> 
> 
> When I log in for the first time, I find that most of my time 
> is loading
> libraries[1] from disk.  The splash screen pops up, and sits 
> for a while
> without actually updating anything.  It then rushes through all icons
> almost immediately, then pops down.  Half of the icons are the
> question-mark anyway, as they aren't listed in progress code.  Logging
> out and back in immediately leads to a fully logged in state almost
> immediately.
> 
> Given that machines are getting faster, and GNOME is getting much
> quicker to start up, what do people think of getting rid of 
> the progress
> indicator?  It doesn't really show any useful information right now.
> Alternately, we could try to delay the registering with the session
> manager until we're fully realized, which will delay the icon by a
> little.  I can also add a sleep (5) to the settings daemon too. (-:
> 
> Any thoughts?  Anyone mind if I write up a patch to remove this
> functionality?
> -Jonathan
> 
> [1] That's my theory, anyway...
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