Re: Progress bar on startup

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Seth Nickell">

> 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).

The other option is to hightlight the already-displayed icons, as KDE's
splash does.

- Jeff

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