GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 155411
gnome-theme-manager should support splash screen selection
Last modified: 2006-01-03 23:57:08 UTC
The theme manager currently supplies no method of changing the splash screen, and saving that as part of a theme, however it would be a nice thing to have. I'm currently working on a patch to add this, but thought I'd create a bug to track it.
I'm not terribly clear which spash screen you want to configure. Nor am I convinced that this is something an end user should configure or would want to configure. Distros need tune these things at the gconf or code level. You'll need to convince me otherwise before this could go in.
I was talking about the gnome-session splash screen which appears as the desktop loads, which I'm fairly sure users would want to change (theres certainly plenty of them at art.gnome.org), however having played a bit with the idea using gnome-theme-manager doesn't appear to be the right way, as the current design doesn't allow for previewing individual parts of a theme.
new comment, reopening. Could be nice to have a way to configure the splashscreen, but I'm not sure that it should be in the theme-manager.
I think it should be a new capplet, similar to background selection capplet. Most users get splash screen images from art.gnome.org or gnome-look.org, etc. and they don't know how to install it.
I have some code for doing this somehwere, so I'll dig it out and do some cleaning up.
Setting this as unversioned enhancement since we don't know when or if this will be finalized and ready to be included.
Some weeks ago I took gnome-background-properties capplet and hacked a bit to handle splash screens instead of desktop background. It is 90% original capplet source code and it was done just for fun and learn something. If you want to include something similar in a future gnome version it could be a starting point. A screenshot: http://www.rootshell.be/~loopback/splash-screen-preferences/splash-screen.png
This looks like exactly the thing I was thinking of.
Created attachment 48896 [details] Screenshot I repost the screenshot since it is no more available on the web site. What about a possible inclusion to gnome-control-center 2.12?
I don't think we should add yet another capplet to already expansive array, just to configure a splash screen. I also don't think we should add a tool to select an image for something that many people are working to just get rid of, either. It also means the user has to open yet another capplet to configure the session splash. The toggle for whether it is on or not, is in the session capplet. The icons that get displayed is in the theme capplet. I believe it uses the font settings that are selectable in the font capplet, but I am not entirely sure. Adding this capplet, means the user would also have to go to it to configure which splash image to actually use, as well. I think I would like to just see the splash image itself become part of the icon theme. This way, when you choose an icon theme, you will just get a splash image that matches the icons, and it gives more control over the look, to the theme authors as well. I would also say that this is definitely a dup of bug #57151
There are already several third party applications that accomplish this task (a quick search at gnomefiles.org reveals at least three or four). It's definitely not something that is ever going to be implemented into GNOME itself. Marking as WONTFIX.