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

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2008/3/11, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
>   3) Have a Glade XML file specified in the .desktop file which will be
>      loaded, instantiated and displayed by Hildon Desktop whilst the app
>      loads. Some mechanism should then be determined to pass that
>      instantiated window to the app once it is ready.
>
>  Personally, I quite like the idea of (3), but the implementation could
>  be tricky. There's also the question then of using Glade for the basic
>  window - which projects may not want to do. However, this could be
>  considered the logical extension of maemo-launcher.

I think this won't generally fly due to the instantiation through
glade being much slower than just doing it by hand. Here's a bit
dated, but presumably still valid study on the matter:

http://syslog.movial.fi/archives/40-Speeding-up-UI-loading-by-compiling-glade-files-into-shared-objects.html

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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