Desktop file can specify a splash image and background color that shell will show until app is ready

Bug #1254775 reported by Cris Dywan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UI Toolkit
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-api (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Daniel d'Andrada
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Daniel d'Andrada

Bug Description

Unity should pick up a splash screen from the .desktop file to be shown while the real app is still starting up.

It's suggested to support SVG and SCI.
The field might be X-Ubuntu-Splash=filename

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kevin gunn (kgunn72)
Changed in unity8:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote :

Update!
The following info is specified by the app developer in the desktop file:
- filename
- background colour

Fields can be
X-Ubuntu-Splash-Image=filename
X-Ubuntu-Splash-Color=#rrggbb

If these are set, the splash screen will be generated with a filled background colour (default black), plus the image centered and scaled to fit (if needed).

If these are not set, a fallback splash is used by the shell with a loading animation on a black background

Gerry Boland (gerboland)
summary: - Load splashscreen from .desktop file
+ Desktop file can specify a splash image and background color that shell
+ will show until app is ready
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Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

Updated list would be:

X-Ubuntu-Splash-Title
X-Ubuntu-Splash-Image
X-Ubuntu-Splash-Show-Header
X-Ubuntu-Splash-Color
X-Ubuntu-Splash-Color-Header
X-Ubuntu-Splash-Color-Footer

Changed in unity8:
assignee: Gerry Boland (gerboland) → Florian Boucault (fboucault)
Revision history for this message
David Planella (dpm) wrote : Re: [Bug 1254775] Re: Desktop file can specify a splash image and background color that shell will show until app is ready

Note that X-Ubuntu-Splash-Title should support translations.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Launchpad Bug Tracker <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> ** Branch linked: lp:~fboucault/unity8/real_header_splashscreen
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> Title:
> Desktop file can specify a splash image and background color that
> shell will show until app is ready
>
> Status in Ubuntu UI Toolkit:
> New
> Status in The Unity 8 shell:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Unity should pick up a splash screen from the .desktop file to be
> shown while the real app is still starting up.
>
> It's suggested to support SVG and SCI.
> The field might be X-Ubuntu-Splash=filename
>
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Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit:
assignee: nobody → Florian Boucault (fboucault)
status: New → In Progress
Changed in unity8:
status: Triaged → In Progress
tags: added: rtm14
Changed in unity8:
importance: Medium → High
Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit:
status: In Progress → Invalid
assignee: Florian Boucault (fboucault) → nobody
Changed in unity8:
assignee: Florian Boucault (fboucault) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader) wrote :

Florian started the work but someone need to adopt his branches and take it from where he left.

Changed in unity8:
status: In Progress → Confirmed
Changed in unity8:
assignee: nobody → Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
kevin gunn (kgunn72)
tags: added: touch-2014-10-02
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → In Progress
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
no longer affects: unity8
Changed in unity-api (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)
status: New → In Progress
kevin gunn (kgunn72)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity-api (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-api (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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