Re: splash screen and session and theme

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:46, James Henstridge wrote:
> Kang Jeong-Hee wrote:
> 
> >well, what do you have in mind for this issue?
> >I want to listen to you.
> >  
> >
> How about making the splash screen image part of the icon theme?  That 
> way you can use the icon theme lookup functions to find the file.  This 
> way the standard splash screen could be part of the "gnome" theme in 
> gnome-icon-theme, and it would be inherited by all the other gnome icon 
> themes automatically.  Also, icon themes could choose a splash image 
> that matched the program icons it displays along the bottom edge while 
> the session loads.

If you go down that path, why not make the default desktop background
part of the icon theme?

If you went down this path, you'd probably have to rename icon theme to
"Picture theme" or "Image theme" in all user visible areas (there is a
_long_ bug about the difference between these 2 and I can't remember
what the difference is).

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