[maemo-developers] Launch image to increase feeling of responsiveness (a la iPhone)

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Mika Yrjölä wrote:

> Then there is also the question of theming; even if the application
> would have separate skeleton startup images for several themes (eating
> the precious storage space), consistency still goes out of the window
> if user installs a new, probably different-looking theme.

One could perhaps do a snapshot on application startup before main loop 
is entered so next startup has updated banner screenshot. This would of 
course slow down startup even more but is one time penalty after each 
theme change.

Still, maybe the effort should be better spent on improving actual 
startup speed ;-) Even current banner is sign of giving up. And it can 
be done. One such example is Application manager. Even on 770 with 
hacker edition it starts below half second, and N800/OS2007 is good too. 
Too bad I need quick startup with Calculator more than with AM :-)

OS2008 is slower (even with higher cpu clock) but let's hope it can be 
improved in next firmware versions, first ones for previous system were 
not exactly fast too.

Frantisek