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Bug 155411 - gnome-theme-manager should support splash screen selection
gnome-theme-manager should support splash screen selection
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] theme-manager
git master
Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-14 17:18 UTC by Jon Wood
Modified: 2006-01-03 23:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


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Screenshot (61.67 KB, image/png)
2005-07-10 10:26 UTC, Luca Cavalli
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Description Jon Wood 2004-10-14 17:18:20 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.
Comment 1 Jody Goldberg 2004-10-14 17:42:46 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Jon Wood 2004-10-14 19:52:12 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2005-01-06 14:21:29 UTC
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. 
Comment 4 Carlos Garcia Campos 2005-01-23 19:49:05 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Jon Wood 2005-01-23 20:05:30 UTC
I have some code for doing this somehwere, so I'll dig it out and do some
cleaning up.
Comment 6 Kjartan Maraas 2005-01-25 10:38:25 UTC
Setting this as unversioned enhancement since we don't know when or if this will
be finalized and ready to be included.
Comment 7 Luca Cavalli 2005-04-13 00:18:27 UTC
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
Comment 8 Jon Wood 2005-04-13 03:06:41 UTC
This looks like exactly the thing I was thinking of.
Comment 9 Luca Cavalli 2005-07-10 10:26:42 UTC
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?
Comment 10 Rodney Dawes 2005-07-10 15:16:22 UTC
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
Comment 11 Thomas Wood 2006-01-03 23:57:08 UTC
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.