9.15 Use a splash screen
A splash screen could be useful if the startup time is increasing. The delay may occur for 2 reasons. There are several startup processes, or the gtkdialog code is heavy. The latter case makes it necessary to close the splash-window first when the main window is drawn on screen. We use the <window> signal show to determine when the splash should be closed.
#Splash echo 0 > /tmp/splash export SPLASH=' <window title="PCC" icon-name="gtk-preferences" resizable="false" decorated="false">'" <vbox> <pixmap><input file>/usr/share/midi-icons/configuration48.png</input></pixmap> <text height-request=\"50\" use-markup=\"true\"><label>\"<b><span size='"'x-large'"' color='"'orange'"'>Puppy Control Center</span></b>\"</label></text>"' <progressbar visible="false"> <label>nn</label> <input>while [ "$M" != "100" ]; do M=`cat /tmp/splash`; echo $M; usleep 500000; done</input> <action type="exit">Ready</action> </progressbar> </vbox></window>' gtkdialog -p SPLASH --center & sleep 2 #well, this is to simulate some startup processes.... export GUI=' <window title="PCC" icon-name="gtk-preferences" width-request="800"> <vbox> <text height-request="200"> <label>Hello, welcome to the Puppy Control Center</label> </text> <hbox> <button ok></button> </hbox> </vbox> <action signal="show">echo 100 > /tmp/splash</action> </window>' gtkdialog -p GUI
Mave has made an attempt to replace yaf-splash using gtkdialog. Yaf-splash doesn't support UTF-8, and has given some issues when translation to some languages. Read more at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=422343#422343
