On 19-Mar-2003, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> MArk Finlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > 1. Everyone loves a good splash screen, but now Gnome has
> > startup-notification which kinda makes them superflous. Startup
> > notification lets you know that your applications is starting but it
> > is not as intrusive as a splash. I have edited my Gimp Launcher to
> > add the line 'StartupNotify=true' and to change it to run 'gimp-1.3
> > -s'. To me this feels much snappier than before. And eventually when
> > nautilus has integrated support for startup notification it would
> > make sense to do the same for the gnome mime-type.
> 
> huh? I doubt that most of our users use Nautilus or even GNOME. The
> current CVS version of The GIMP now properly supports startup
> notification and there's a command-line option to disable the splash.
> What more could you possibly ask for?

I use openbox by itself, with no desktop environment at all. I guess I
represent the majority?

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Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd 
all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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