Re: Next release

[David Kastrup]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Miles Bader wrote:
>> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>>   
>>> Another problem with it is that it would appear that nothing is
>>> happening as Emacs is starting.
>>>     
>>
>> Is that really such a problem though?  Other apps seem to do that quite
>> often.
>>
>> Anyway, a specialized "Starting Emacs..." splash screen could use a simple
>> hard-wired image and skip all the grot associated with emacs image
>> loading.  [Indeed, just embed the image as a pixmap in the C code...]
>>   
>
> Yes, PPM is an option, as that does not require external libraries. I
> think the problem with displaying nothing is that loading .emacs could
> take a very long time if the user has a lot of code in there
> (comparable to Gimp loading all its plugins). It is probably a good
> idea to also display messages in the splash screen so the user can see
> progress happening (including any "el is newer than elc" and "XXX is
> obsolete" messages that come up).

A single line area with a fixed font may be sufficient for that.

-- 
David Kastrup