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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Remove progressbar from splash
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2004-02-05 13:16:13
Message-ID: 200402051416.13984.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Wednesday 04 of February 2004 18:53, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> On February 4, 2004 10:42, Christian Loose wrote:
> > How useful is it when its already at e.g. 80% when the session
> > restoration starts? But I agree that this is a matter of opinion. So I
> > guess it's up to the maintainer. ;-)
>
> useful would be a text label that shows the name of the application the
> session manager is currently (re)starting, as that would show some real
> information vs a quietly progressing progress bar. respecting the startup
> notification flags would be good here too.

 Actually that text label would often be quite inaccurate, as there are 
usually more than one app starting at a time when session restoring. Moreover 
KSMServer considers an app running as soon as it registers with it, which is 
somewhere in QApplication (IOW quite soon), and the app may still need some 
time to be fully read or even visible). OTOH the splashscreen already lies 
about what's going on anyway, so who cares ;).

 If somebody's going to implement this, I think the right place for calling 
KSplash's programStarted() is in KSMServer::startApplication(), I just don't 
know how it's going to find out the icon or description. It'll actually even 
have to guess program name from the command.

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Lubos Lunak
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