doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread David Prieto
Hi, I've noticed that when I power on my laptop the session splash after the GDM lasts only some 3 or 4 seconds, but even after that the desktop background takes another 3 or 4 to appear, them 5 to get the panel and another 5 or so to get the panel applets and be able to actually use the

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Elijah Newren
On 4/4/07, David Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've noticed that when I power on my laptop the session splash after the GDM lasts only some 3 or 4 seconds, but even after that the desktop background takes another 3 or 4 to appear, them 5 to get the panel and another 5 or so to get the

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Thomas Wood
On 04/04/07 07:36, Elijah Newren wrote: On 4/4/07, David Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've noticed that when I power on my laptop the session splash after the GDM lasts only some 3 or 4 seconds, but even after that the desktop background takes another 3 or 4 to appear, them 5 to get

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 04 avril 2007 à 09:31 +0100, Thomas Wood a écrit : On 04/04/07 07:36, Elijah Newren wrote: On 4/4/07, David Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've noticed that when I power on my laptop the session splash after the GDM lasts only some 3 or 4 seconds, but even after that

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Thomas Wood
On 04/04/07 09:59, Frederic Crozat wrote: Le mercredi 04 avril 2007 à 09:31 +0100, Thomas Wood a écrit : [...] Ugh, can't we get rid of the splash screen yet? I don't think it is a good idea : a lot of people don't have fast as light systems which give you a working desktop 2s after typing

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Calum Benson
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:07 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: Well, I usually don't give up on my system unless I've been waiting for 10 seconds or more. I can't actually find any example of another desktop system (other than KDE) that has a splash screen between login and presenting the desktop.

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
El mié, 04-04-2007 a las 10:59 +0200, Frederic Crozat escribió: Le mercredi 04 avril 2007 à 09:31 +0100, Thomas Wood a écrit : Ugh, can't we get rid of the splash screen yet? I don't think it is a good idea : a lot of people don't have fast as light systems which give you a working desktop

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 04 avril 2007 à 10:33 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit : El mié, 04-04-2007 a las 10:59 +0200, Frederic Crozat escribió: Le mercredi 04 avril 2007 à 09:31 +0100, Thomas Wood a écrit : Ugh, can't we get rid of the splash screen yet? I don't think it is a good idea : a

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
El mié, 04-04-2007 a las 18:15 +0200, Frederic Crozat escribió: Well, you need to define your test system first for those 2 seconds :) Laptop hard drive, 512 MB RAM. -with no program started except nautilus, gnome-panel and metacity, it takes 12s from login to get the system ready to respond

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
El mié, 04-04-2007 a las 17:32 +0100, Richard Hughes escribió: What's the best way to profile this? (Federico?) g-p-m daemon'izes as soon as possible but I think it still slows down the gnome-panel load. We'd need to know if gnome-panel is actually blocking on gnome-power-manager. I have no

Re: doesn't the session splash disappear too soon?

2007-04-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:36 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Does the panel launch gnome-power-manager? Or is it a notification-area thingy which gets launched by something else? Not an applet, it gets started by the session and then just uses GtkStatusIcon to attach to the tray. Richard.