Calum Benson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 22:18 -0700, Niall Power wrote: > >> I don't know of any reliable way to determine how long the app is >> going to take to come up. > > AFAIK the usual way isn't to guess how long it will take to come up, but > to fire off a background timer as soon as possible in the startup > process, and show the splash if the first window hasn't appeared within > N seconds of the timer starting. (You also need to set a minimum > duration that the splash screen should appear for, rather than just > having it disappear when the first window appears... otherwise it might > disappear moments after it appeared, which looks sloppy.)
I think I'd personally rather see a lighter-weight animated hourglass with the introduction of Xcursor, than a splash screen. Glynn
