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Re: 9.0.6: Menu and launching-related issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 12 10:09:55 2001
Message-Id: <200106121409.KAA13823@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:45:42 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:09:33 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I would seriously consider enabling a splashscreen for menu items
> that take longer than two seconds to show signs of some activity on
> the slowest machines.
From a technical perspective, if the f_l's want to experiment with
this for particular commands, I think the best way to do it is to
change the desktop entry to execute something like:
NO_XALF xalf --splash command
(--splash can also be -s.)
