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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: ksplash: close_timer default too short
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-01-30 14:20:40
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Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> 
> Hmm ... me again.
> 
> There's noone mentioned as author or maintainer in the whole
> ksplash folder, except you in the cvs info line of ksplash.cpp.
> 
> Since a while ksplash closes long before the init process is
> actually finished. This is really annoying. If I can't trust
> ksplash and have to guess at the end, anyway, then there's no
> use for such a 'progress meter'. The problem is the 10 s
> default close time, which seems much too short for my system.
> I increased it to 60 s and found out, that ksplash now works
> as intended. And, that the whole process lasts almost 40 s!
> 
> This may be a configuration problem at my side and I have yet
> to find the reason for that. One the other hand, as I'm using
> the provided default 'startkde' (on a 266MHz machine), I'd
> expect also other users to run into that problem. Sure, 60 s
> sound very long, but a timer expiration after the built-in
> default time shouldn't happen anyway. Which it does =now=!.  :-(
> 
> m.
> 
> --- ksplash.cpp.orig    Tue Jan 30 14:22:51 2001
> +++ ksplash.cpp Tue Jan 30 14:23:06 2001
> @@ -75,14 +75,14 @@
> 
>      close_timer = new QTimer( this );
>      connect( close_timer, SIGNAL( timeout() ), this, SLOT( close() ) );
> -    close_timer->start( 10000, TRUE );
> +    close_timer->start( 60000, TRUE );
>  }
> 
>  void KSplash::upAndRunning( QString s )
>  {
>      bool update = true;
>      if ( close_timer->isActive() )
> -       close_timer->start( 10000, TRUE );
> +       close_timer->start( 60000, TRUE );
> 
>      if ( s == "dcop" )
>         {
> 
Hi!

I had the same problem with the Solaris box in the university where KDE
starts over NFS. kicker didn't start in 10 seconds and ksplash disappeared
after that. I'm going to apply your patch, if noone on kde-core-devel objects

Greetings, Stephan


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and report it to the author haven't got the idea behind open source.
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