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> Remember how the original Mac used to plop down icons of all your system extensions one-by-one along the bottom of the screen, in the order that it loaded the
by Gualdrapo 5y ago
> Remember how the original Mac used to plop down icons of all your system extensions one-by-one along the bottom of the screen, in the order that it loaded them, which helped you know how long it would take to boot, and figure out which one crashed your system?
Iirc Haiku does that in its splash screen. KDE sort of did at some point in KDE 4.x.
- darkwater 5y ago> KDE sort of did at some point in KDE 4.x. I would swear it was KDE 3.x in its splash screen. https://cdn.pling.com/img//hive/content-pre1/14801-1.png https://cdn.pling.com/img//hive/content-pre1/14801-1.png The icons at the bottom would start in grey scale and be colored as KDE was loading.
- Kwpolska 5y agoKDE 4 also used this style of splash screen (with the icons fading into view): https://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/kde4-splash1.jpg https://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/kde4-sp...
- darkwater 5y agoYeah, now I remember, I removed KDE 4 and its clocks [1] from my memory (it actually made me switch to Gnome and never went back) [1] basically the initial 4.0 release (which was a rewrite from scratch for the UI/Desktop component) was not usable at all as a daily driver, lots of crashes and missing features. The only thing that worked well from the start were the clock widgets, and they were showcased a lot in screenshot. I think it even reached some kind of meme status by KDE 4.1. But I cannot find any blog post / rant from the time, my search-fu is not that good.