On Wednesday 21 March 2001 17:52, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> in memory. When it says "Loading the window manager", several other
> processes are starting up at the same time: kdesktop, kpanel, all
> in autostart, etc.

So just add messages about all these things to KSplash. The 
experienced user will read this and think "oh wow, so much work to 
do, ok this takes some time" and the other users have so much to read 
that they don't feel the time;)

Mathias
 
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