Are the messages on the splash screen useful?

[Michael Meeks]

On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 19:55 +0400, Ivan Timofeev wrote:
> There is Bug 52268 - Splash Screen: Messages on first start displayed in
> wrong colour in the wrong place
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52268

	Annoying :-) we should fix that.

> and what I want to do is to remove those messages. Is that OK? I cannot
> imagine when the messages can be really useful. Moreover, messages come from

	They are useful when we're doing a first-ever startup, and a lot of
heavy-lifting gets done during that first run: creating your home
directory skeleton, compiling help, registering extensions etc. etc.

	Luckily a lot of this is getting a lot quicker with Stephan's work, and
we shouldn't really be stuffing tons of duplicate stuff in per-user
directories anyway, so - perhaps in future it'll not be necessary (we
hope ;-).

	I guess for slow tasks, it gives the user the impression something is
happening while they start [ though the progress bar can give that too
but is not very granular ].

	ATB,

		Michael.

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