On 04/09/07, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote: > Calum Benson wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 22:18 -0700, Niall Power wrote: > > > >> I don't know of any reliable way to determine how long the app is > >> going to take to come up. > > > > AFAIK the usual way isn't to guess how long it will take to come up, but > > to fire off a background timer as soon as possible in the startup > > process, and show the splash if the first window hasn't appeared within > > N seconds of the timer starting. (You also need to set a minimum > > duration that the splash screen should appear for, rather than just > > having it disappear when the first window appears... otherwise it might > > disappear moments after it appeared, which looks sloppy.) > > I think I'd personally rather see a lighter-weight animated hourglass with the > introduction of Xcursor, than a splash screen.
That seems like a reasonable compromise. Some sort of indicator that the system is doing something is quite useful. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
