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Yes sounds awfull and sad for the eyecandy we are having, but actually it has a much clearer reason. Lets get KDE startup time soooo much down that it would not need the splashscreen at all!
I think it really needs speeding up. After atleast 4-5 uptime on my machine KDE ate 4GB of RAM here.
Guess which processes was at fault for this: plasma-desktop.
Please make it faster and a bit less resource hungry!

I really doubt the splashscreen itself introduces any kind of performance issue.. Probably many processes are launched at the same time, and that's the reason of a slow startup, so idea's title is meaningless imho.

A different idea is having an on-demand modular system, which might prevent many things to be loaded by default, and should do the trick. Anyway, as i've said this is a different idea.

Regards

Im sorry but the issue I have with KDE's start up is really not the pretty splashscreen but the speed.
You are right the splashscreen isnt the speed issue but the at all startup of KDE. Getting rid of the splashscreen was just a catch. Since to get rid of the Splashscreen you need to speed up the startup time which is what I actually aim at here.
This goal was what GNOME did a long time ago. They said aswell "Lets get rid of the splashscreen" which also ment get GNOME to start up so fast that you dont need it not that the splashscreen was slowing down everything and the splashscreen needs to be removed.

I'm totally for this, although I think KDE is very close. On my main laptop, I have a dual core intel CPU, and it manages to hit the desktop before even the first icon is totally faded in. That's probably about a 2 or 3 second time, which doesn't require a splash screen whatsoever.

My netbook is a different issue, taking about 10 seconds to get through the splash. But I guess I really shouldn't be using a full fledged KDE4 desktop with composites, wobbly windows, 4 desktops, and falling snow on a netbook, now should I?

See: GSoC 2010

http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Idea ... artup_time

I know what this is about, but a better title for the post would be appreciated, that's all

Regards

Changed title to faster start-up time.
Also is this idea in development, given there's a GSoC project for it.
I'd wait until the project gets started and shows some results...

Once the title makes sense also my first comment does.

Part of the solution can be not only improving the slowest parts, but also to prevent many unnecessary things to be loaded by default. Having a more modular stuff can help to achieve this startup time reducing, and can even help with memory usage. Of course it's easy to say, but it's important to consider this a good way to face the problem.

Anyway, we'll see what happens with this GSoC project.

Regards

This falls under the "make kde faster" group of ideas, which are not valid. Unless you have some specific suggestions for improvements, this sort of idea is not really helpful. As others have said, the splash screen is not a major source of slowdown, and you can turn it off easily enough if it bothers you. And "make plasma less resource-hungry" is also not a specific enough suggestion to be helpful. There is a GSOC project working on this, but that is because someone determined that there were specific areas that could be improved.