Re: Progress bar on startup

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Hey Jonathan,

I think having feedback as GNOME launches is useful, though I agree that
the usefuleness of that feedback is impaired by all the icons rushing
by. I think what would be really nice, and would create less of the
"icons quickly flashing" problem would be to use a progress
bar...particularly if we could get some sort of feedback during long
operations such as Pango initializing (probably not possible, I know).

-Seth

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:38, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 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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