KSplashScreen (was Re: Qt 3.2 requirement)

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 25 of July 2003 14:19, Chris Howells wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Friday 25 July 2003 12:21, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  BTW, I just committed support for _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH to
> > kwin_iii, which allows it to greatly reduce the annoyance of
> > QSplashScreen (no covering of everything else, sane stacking order, being
> > only on one virtual desktop, hiding after clicking on it, disabling them
> > completely is just a matter of adding one checkbox). The patch itself is
> > quite short, so I'll see how easily it will apply to HEAD -> unless you
> > care about the lack of
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> Sounds great! I take it this can kill of the OpenOffice.org splash screen
> as well :)

 No, sorry. The application has to set the correct window type, and not use 
override redirect, so that the window manager can handle the window.

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