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Bug 201377 - Enable java -splash on Linux
Summary: Enable java -splash on Linux
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Launchers&CLI (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1
Hardware: Other Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Jiri Rechtacek
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Reported: 2011-08-27 13:38 UTC by Jaroslav Tulach
Modified: 2013-02-11 20:18 UTC (History)
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Description Jaroslav Tulach 2011-08-27 13:38:23 UTC 
java -splash is not used on Linux due to bug 178453. As JDK problem 6379447 was fixed long time ago in 1.6u21, I guess we should enable -splash on Unixes again.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2011-08-30 19:14:45 UTC 
May still be plenty of people using 6u20 or earlier; do we have statistics on this?

Need to take into account bug #201377.
Comment 2 Jiri Rechtacek 2012-02-16 16:57:14 UTC 
Assigned to new owner.
Comment 3 Jaroslav Tulach 2012-03-02 15:19:46 UTC 
Simple fix for the 6u20 problem, is to write down the splash.gif cache file only if the IDE is running on newer version of JDK. That will work in majority of cases[1].

There is not much work to make it work. Just:
#1 - revert http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/0d600a0c79a3
#2 - write down the cache only on newer JDKs.

Tonda, assign to me, if you want to me do it for 7.2.


[1] Unless somebody starts on JDK6u21 one day and then returns back to JDK6u20 later.
Comment 4 Jiri Rechtacek 2013-02-08 10:57:56 UTC 
http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/3b3ebf20f7a0
Comment 5 Quality Engineering 2013-02-10 01:41:40 UTC 
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201302092300* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/3b3ebf20f7a0
User: Jiri Rechtacek <jrechtacek@netbeans.org>
Log: #201377: Enable java -splash on Linux;
don't care about Java 6 in light of near switching to Java 7 or newer
Comment 6 Jaroslav Tulach 2013-02-11 20:18:44 UTC 
Yes, the -splash is used on my $ java -version
java version "1.7.0_13"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_13-b20)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)
and it shows pretty damn fast! Great.

I've noticed just one problem - on my multi monitor setup the splash is not centred properly.