Splash screen

[Ruan Strydom]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 08:58:29 pm Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 31.10.09 21:02:37, Ruan Strydom wrote:
> > The code does a QTimer::singleShot(0, splash, SLOT(deleteLater())) and
> > does not completely disable it because of the event loop and async
> > events.
> 
> Not sure I understand what you mean? One thing I'm planning to do is to
> actually have a signal emitted from Core::initialize() to connect that to
> the deleteLater().

I simply mean that where its used it is not disabling the splash completely. 
Not a problem.

> 
> > If there 's going to be a splash screen will it be static or will it show
> > loading information (ie 'Loading plugins' 'Setting up view') the picture
> > has a loading % bar and just wondering if it is actually needed?
> >
> > If you need a more intelligent splash class, capable of settings statuses
> > etc, I can write the code for it if needed?
> 
> KSplashScreen can already show messages etc. But I didn't think thats
> overly useful. After all this Splashscreen is not there for "hiding" that
> kdevelop needs long to start up, so there's no need to say what we're doing
> right now.

True. The picture has a progress bar in it, should I remove it then?

Ruan