The meaning of KDE's "Five Amigos" log on

[verndog]

Not sure where to put this.

When KDE boots up there's the 5 icons that appear:

1. Read in the Kernel,......... HD icon
2. Initialize,........................ Tool Box icon
3. Internet.......................... Globe icon
4. Setup a User Desktop..... Desktop or Plasma icon
5. Start KDE...................... Big 'K' icon

Over at kde.org, no one there has a clue. A holdover from kde3 was an answer.

The only reason I care , is I'm having some issue with nouveau and any kde distro. I watch the 5 amigos and if the last one - Big 'Kmart' halts for any time, then I's assured my system will freeze.

Then must have some relevance or they wouldn't be there. I know it can't be for our amusement - there not silly enough.

[Rog132]

Documents

README

https://projects.kde.org/projects/kd...ksplash/README

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45 Startup states:
46 ===============
47
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)
57
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)
61 - states may be added
62 - states may be reordered (waiting for a later state and then a sooner state means the sooner state will take 0 time)

KsplashX README: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kd...splashx/README

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97 # wait until the specified ksplash state
98 # see the splash toplevel README file (one directory up)
99 # specifying "ready" means waiting until whole startup is complete (should be used at the very end)
100 WAIT_STATE state
...

KSplashX description.txt : /usr/share/kde4/apps/ksplash/Themes/Default/1600x1200/description.txt

Animation wait states:

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ANIM_REL 1 CC -192 -50 LT 30 icon1_anim.png 85 1
WAIT_STATE kded

# 69,32
ANIM_REL 2 CC -126 -50 LT 30 icon2_anim.png 85 1
WAIT_STATE kcminit

# 135,32
ANIM_REL 3 CC -60 -50 LT 29 icon3_anim.png 85 1
WAIT_STATE ksmserver

# 201,32
ANIM_REL 4 CC 6 -50 LT 30 icon4_anim.png 85 1
WAIT_STATE wm

# 263,15
ANIM_REL 5 CC 68 -88 LT 30 icon5_anim.png 85 1
WAIT_STATE desktop

WAIT_STATE ready
...

Static icons:

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# show the icons fully right before the splash goes away
STOP_ANIM 1
IMAGE_REL CC -192 -50 LT icon1.png
STOP_ANIM 2
IMAGE_REL CC -126 -50 LT icon2.png
STOP_ANIM 3
IMAGE_REL CC -60 -50 LT icon3.png
STOP_ANIM 4
IMAGE_REL CC 6 -50 LT icon4.png
STOP_ANIM 5
IMAGE_REL CC 68 -88 LT icon5.png

Older Kubuntu forums links:

- http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...mizing-Kubuntu
- http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...lashQML-Themes