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

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

kees.jongenburger at gmail.com wrote:
> When I and tired of waiting it is usually when launching gmail.
> the think I do in between is to start a second web-browser. How would that look
> with the "startup"picks?

Well the idea (not sure how real it is) was that doing the snapshot 
would be part of application initialization so the appliation itself 
could figure out pointer to bitmap of its own window and do a snapshow 
no matter if it is currently on the top or not. Also most applications 
do not take any input parameters so they look same on startup. Those 
that take parameters (like browser) either look same before they go to 
URL or maybe the snapshot should be done only if application is launched 
  in some 'normal' way without using special parameters.

As for fancy launcher with thumbnails, maybe this could be part of such 
launcher even now if the bitmap of specific window can be read via X API 
somehow.

Frantisek