Re: Killing the splashscreen for 2.16

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 16 Jul 2006, at 01:46, Alex Graveley wrote:

> What about showing the splash screen after 5 seconds of visual  
> inactivity?

Or maybe even just note how long it took to log in last time, and  
only bother showing a splash screen if it was more than 10 seconds,  
because that's probably how long it'll take this time too. (This  
would probably mean you'd always want to show a splash screen the  
first time for a new user or after an upgrade, because you won't know  
how long it's going to take on those occasions.)

OSX does something similar for its boot screen, IIRC: it presents a  
smoothly-filling progress bar that's timed to fill up as quickly as  
it took the boot process to reach the login screen last time.   
Obviously this means it's sometimes out by a few seconds either way,  
but it's close enough that nobody cares.

Cheeri,
Calum.

> Ben Maurer wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to turn off the login splashscreen by default, for the
> > > following reasons:
> > >
> > >        - login is somewhat faster
> > >
> > >        - the 'progress' icons in the splashscreen don't reflect the
> > >          time it actually takes to login.
> > >
> > > On my system, the login process is like this:
> > > ...
> > > The splash screen just doesn't serve any purpose. The "progress" it
> > > shows has nothing to do with reality, and the splash screen itself
> > > isn't even visible for more than 25% of the login time.
> >
> > The times might be much longer for some users -- eg, somebody with  
> > an NFS
> > home. 36 seconds (from your measurement) is a *long* time to go  
> > without
> > feedback of any sort. I really wish GDM took care of the UI and  
> > made the
> > transition to the desktop smooth.
> >
> > -- Ben
> >
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