What about showing the splash screen after 5 seconds of visual inactivity?
-Alex 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 > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
