Feature #5530: Don't display the splash screen for some applications in Windows Camouflage mode

Feature #5530

Don't display the splash screen for some applications in Windows Camouflage mode

Added by Tails 2013-07-18 07:42:22 . Updated 2015-12-05 13:37:51 .

Status:

Rejected

Priority:

Low

Assignee:

Category:

Camouflage

Target version:

Tails_1.8

Start date:

Due date:

% Done:

50%

Feature Branch:

feature/5530-disable-splash-screens-in-camouflage-mode

Type of work:

Code

Blueprint:

Starter:

Affected tool:

Deliverable for:

Description

Improvement for Windows Camouflage:

add --no-splash startup setting to those applications: scribus, gimp

Files

win8_no_splash.txt (1166 B)	hybridwipe, 2015-08-06 22:35:46
win8_nosplash2.txt (1472 B)	hybridwipe, 2015-08-07 14:05:31
tails-prepare-win8-theme-use-exec-to-launch-gimp-scr.patch (1006 B)	hybridwipe, 2015-10-28 09:03:56

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - ~~Feature #7377~~: Improve Windows 8 camouflage	Rejected	2014-04-24
Copied to Tails - ~~Feature #9958~~: Don't display the splash screen for LibreOffice in Windows Camouflage mode	Rejected	2015-08-09

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2013-09-04 03:27:00

Priority changed from Normal to Low
Starter set to No

#2 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-09 12:12:10

related to ~~Feature #6342~~: Update Windows camouflage for GNOME3 added

#3 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-09 12:12:23

Subject changed from improve Windows Camouflage to Improve Windows Camouflage

#4 Updated by alant 2014-06-10 05:20:23

> easy-to-access shutdown button

Done

> add a shortcut to the desktop in the bottom panel

This wouldn’t look like win8

> add —no-splash startup setting to those applications: scribus, inkscape (?)

Please create a specific ticket for that one.

#5 Updated by alant 2014-06-10 05:22:03

related to deleted (~~~~Feature #6342~~: Update Windows camouflage for GNOME3~~)

#6 Updated by alant 2014-06-10 05:22:27

related to ~~Feature #7377~~: Improve Windows 8 camouflage added

#7 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-10 07:23:22

Subject changed from Improve Windows Camouflage to Windows Camouflage: add @--no-splash@ startup setting to some applications
Description updated

I changed the title and description, since the ticket had no other interest anymore.

#8 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-10 09:54:46

Subject changed from Windows Camouflage: add @--no-splash@ startup setting to some applications to Don't display the splash screen for some applications

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-10 13:02:19

Subject changed from Don't display the splash screen for some applications to Don't display the splash screen for some applications in Windows Camouflage mode

#10 Updated by anonym 2014-06-11 16:45:58

Category set to Camouflage

#11 Updated by hybridwipe 2015-07-07 17:34:50

Using tails 1.4.1, I tested a few apps:
gimp: splash is shown, but suppressed with —no-splash
inkscape: no splash is shown
scribus: splash is shown, but suppressed with —no-splash

I looked in the source but couldn’t find any reference to —no-splash or anything related for inkscape that I could replicate.

#12 Updated by BitingBird 2015-07-08 08:05:44

I asked hybridwipe to check without camouflage, and inkscape doesn’t have a splashscreen either. They probably removed it in a recent version.

#13 Updated by BitingBird 2015-07-08 08:07:05

Description updated

removed inkscape from description, added gimp

#14 Updated by hybridwipe 2015-08-06 22:38:53

File win8_no_splash.txt added

I’ve attached a patch for review. While it’s probably possible to change the icon in the application menu using gsettings or something else as user, that doesn’t prevent the user from running either program via the command line or some other GUI program and that option being ignored. Instead, I’ve opted to rename the executable to $executable-real and replace the original with a simple script that always sets —no-splash

#15 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-07 02:20:39

Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
Assignee set to hybridwipe
QA Check set to Dev Needed

> I’ve attached a patch for review.

Thanks!

> While it’s probably possible to change the icon in the application menu using gsettings or something else as user, that doesn’t prevent the user from running either program via the command line or some other GUI program and that option being ignored. Instead, I’ve opted to rename the executable to $executable-real and replace the original with a simple script that always sets —no-splash

Makes sense to me. But the right way to replace files shipped by Debian packages is dpkg-divert; you’ll find examples by git grep’ing our source tree :)

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