Oh hey,
Sorry, it's just I haven't been using the software for a while now. The
gnome-art project is apparently not maintained anymore
(http://www.miketech.net/gnome-art/) . There's gnome-art NextGen instead
(http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gnomeartng/).
Anyway, just to check, I installed gnome-splashscreen-manager (version
0.2-12 karmic) and gnome-art (version 0.2-12 karmic).
The problem still occurs. You can reproduce it as follows:
* start gnome-splashscreen-manager (System->Preferences->Splash Screen, or in
the shell: gnome-splashscreen-manager)
* you can't do much here, because there are no splash screens currently
installed. Exit the program.
* start gnome-art (eg. System->Preferences->Art Manager, or in the shell:
gnome-art)
* Go to Art->Other Themes->Splash Screen
* A list of available splash screens will fill up the first time round (it will
take a few minutes)
* Choose "Country Splash" - it's nearer the end (yup, it's still there - the
same broken splash screen)
* Click "Install"
* You can now verify if the file "~/.gnome2/splash-screens.xml" contains the
reference to the chosen theme (See the attached file)
* You can also verity that you have a broken png file called
"Splash-CountrySplash.png" in the directory
"~/.gnome2/gnome-art/download/splashscreens"
* Now try starting gnome-splashscreen-manager again (see how at the start) - it
will silently fail. If you try starting it from terminal, you'll see something
like:
---------------------snip
$ gnome-splashscreen-manager
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/splash_screens.rb:192:in
`last_write': Unrecognised image file format (Gdk::PixbufError)
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/splash_screens.rb:192:in
`download_pixbuf'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:32:in `open_uri_original_open'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:32:in `open'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/splash_screens.rb:191:in
`download_pixbuf'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/splash_screens.rb:199:in
`create_thumbnail'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/splash_screens.rb:271:in
`get_splash_screens'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:892:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/xpath.rb:53:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:892:in `each'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/splash_screens.rb:221:in
`get_splash_screens'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/ui/main_window.rb:281:in
`reload_splash_screens'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/ui/main_window.rb:479:in
`initialize'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/gnome_splashscreen_manager.rb:62:in
`new'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gnome-splashscreen-manager/gnome_splashscreen_manager.rb:62:in
`main'
from /usr/bin/gnome-splashscreen-manager:25
---------------------snip
* Now remove the offending file: $ rm
~/.gnome2/gnome-art/download/splashscreens/Splash-CountrySplash.png
* try to start gnome-splashscreen-manager again - should work this time. If ran
from terminal, you'll see this:
---------------------snip
$ gnome-splashscreen-manager DELETE
/home/michael/.gnome2/gnome-art/download/splashscreens/Splash-CountrySplash.png
---------------------snip
I also noticed that the "Close" button on the "Help->About" window doesn't work
neither in gnome-splashscreen-manager nor in gnome-art. The window decoration
exit button works, though.
Also, the splash-screen manager doesn't seem to activate the splash
screen on ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) at all - I guess it's no longer
supported.
So to summarise, apparently, it's a stalled project, no longer
supported, still buggy, and will most likely not be fixed. I haven't
tried the "Gnome-Art NextGen" yet - maybe i'll give it a try later, but
probably not for the splash screen, as I got used to a splash-screen-
less startup.
Cheers!
Michael
** Attachment added: "After adding Country Splash using gnome-art"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40384172/splash-screens.xml
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