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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
