From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: The current Eclipse splash says "NATIVE ECLIPSE" and "based on Eclipse 3.1". I've spoken to a number of people about this, and nobody seems to like the "NATIVE ECLIPSE" name. It's also a bit misleading, since it's only "native" if you're using the java-gcj-compat alternative. Can we please change this to "FEDORA ECLIPSE"? Also, we're using 3.1.1 now, not 3.1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start Eclipse 2.Look at the splash screen 3. Additional info:
Billy: do you think it's possible to make the splash screen dynamic? ie. based upon what JVM is running? The work that's gone into the progress-meter-on-splash-screen in 3.2 - does that alter the image itself or do some sort of overlay in a window?
The splash screen is the splash.bmp file in the org.eclipse.platform plugin. It seems that you can tell eclipse where to look for a splash screen using the osgi.splashLocation property, see the default config.ini in the configuration directory. So, I think that if you wanted to have some logic in a shell script somewhere then this is definitely possible. The progress meter is simply a GtkProgressBar positioned on top of the image. Eclipse tells the launcher where to place the progress bar and the label, so there may be some more system properties or something that you could use to tweak where the progress bar is on top of a different splash screen. That all said, I personally think the name is misleading anyway and you should just use "Fedora Eclipse" all the time. ;)
Diana was kind enough to do up a new splash screen. It'll appear in the next builds in both FC4 updates-testing and rawhide. It's in CVS now.
This is fixed in updates-testing with eclipse-platform-3.1.1-1jpp_1fc.FC4.11.