4 The 'kcm' directory contains the control module for configuring the splashscreen.
5 Other directories contain various splash implementations:
7 - 'none' is no splashscreen
8 - 'simple' is a very simple and fast splashscreen showing a plain progressbar
9 - 'ksplashx' is a more capable implementation. See its README.
11 (the KDE3 implementation 'ksplashml' has been removed to /tags/unmaintained)
17 This is a description of what is shared between the implementations (as needed
18 by the configuration module and startkde code deciding which implementation to use).
19 Implementations may have their own additions.
21 Themes are stored in $KDEDIRS/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/ in a directory specifying
22 the name of the theme. The directory must contain file 'Theme.rc' describing
23 the theme and should contain file 'Preview.png' with a preview image. Other contents
24 are implementation-dependent.
30 The format is the usual ini-style format, e.g.:
32 [KSplash Theme: Simple]
33 Name = Simple Splash Screen
34 Description = Very Simple Optimized Splash Screen
36 Author = Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>
39 The group name is [KSplash Theme: <theme name>]. Name, Description, Version and Author
40 are shown in the configuration module. Engine selects which splash implementation
41 the theme is for (currently 'None', 'Simple' and 'KSplashX' ). There may be futher
42 implementation-dependent data in Theme.rc .
48 These are ksplash states:
49 - initial - at the beginning
50 - kded - after kded is running (dbus is ready, etc.)
51 - confupdate - after kconf_update (settings updated after upgrade, etc.)
52 - kcminit - after configuration setup
53 - ksmserver - session manager is started
54 - wm - window manager is running
55 - desktop - desktop (plasma) is running
56 - ready - session is ready (not fully actually, still e.g. restoring applications, but splash goes away)
58 Note however that these states should not be relied on too much:
59 - they do not represent very accurately what is actually going on
60 - states may be removed (they'll take 0 time and directly go to another state)
62 - states may be reordered (waiting for a later state and then a sooner state means the sooner state will take 0 time)