Created attachment 87897 [details]
startup-notification-based splash screen

FWIW, here's what I'm planning to do in my rewrite. The splash screen becomes
a separate program and uses startup notification monitoring to do the icons.
(You can try it out by just running the program and then launching things
from the menus and seeing their icons show up. Just comment out the
EggSMClient bits.) I haven't figured out for sure how the splash program
knows it's time to quit though :).

There's also a bugfix in there relative to the current sources: re_laydown()
needs to set "si->trans_count = TRANS_TIMEOUT_PERIOD;" for each icon it
modifies the pixbuf of, otherwise it crashes if has to resize the icons while
an icon is still fading in. (I didn't bother sending you a patch for this
because it's not possible to get that many icons in the splash with the
current system anyway.)

This is basically fixed in trunk (the rewrite cited by Dan). Vincent, do you have any interest in commiting this to gnome-2-22? I'll close this bug as FIXED otherwise.

Closing as fixed per last comment.