Re: Fwd: [gsl-dev] replace the .bmp splashscreen

[Mathias Bauer]

eric.bachard wrote:

> Hi Mathias,
> 
> Mathias Bauer a écrit :
> 
>> Just one question: you didn't answer to the mails telling that we plan to 
>> replace the splash screen code by some native code outside of OOo.
>> Doesn't that change anything for y
> 
> 
> Sure, it does : I'm a fan of the performance thing (even if I wouldn't 
> have created yet another project for that), and I'll participate and 
> propose tasks for students, for a lot of good reasons.
> 
> Now, to justify what I do, my idea is :
> 
> 1) short term  : make it work with the solution I pasted
> 
> As you probably know, I'm working on a 7-12 years version of OOo 
> (without Base nor Math, light, for all ports), and Fun is mandatory.
> 
> That's why I'd like to use .png for using another splashscreen, really 
> Fun. The splashscreen is the first feeling of the user, and children are 
> extremely sensible with that. Maybe a bad reason, but waiting, this make 
> me understand more OOo code, so, all in all, this cannot be bad ;)
> 
> 
> 2) middle/long  term : write (help to) native code to improve 
> performance with you.
> 
> If you need more information, we can continue on IRC, I'll be on the 
> channel around 10h30

I'm not sure if we understand each other. :-)

I just wanted to know if you think that your work on using png for the
splash screen still makes sense even if it will be thrown out with the
native splash screen loader in a few weeks or months. Sorry for being
unclear.

Regards,
Mathias


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