Disable splashscreen by default on new installs

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Using this picture for your splash screen instead:
http://www.anchsand.com/Portals/3/pierblock.jpg

What is the expected output?
Great laughter.

What do you see instead?
A PIER BLOCK - get it? :)

What version of PeerBlock are you using? On what operating system? 32- or
64-bit?
Win7 32-bit.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by frederic...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2009 at 12:47

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• pierblock.jpg

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How about having the splash screen disabled on new installs?

Original comment by XhmikosR on 16 Sep 2009 at 3:37

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No matter which route you choose, the current splash screen is rather ugly (= 
nothing
to look at).
That pier block would make for a nice in-joke and somewhat resembles your icon 
in the
tray.

Then again, no picture = smaller installer = less bandwidth costs for you (if 
any).

So if you don't like my original pier block idea I vote for removing it 
entirely.

Keep on coding! :)
Frederick

Original comment by frederic...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2009 at 4:17

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Heh, that is kinda funny.  Not quite the style we're going for though...

I agree, at this point we should probably remove the splashscreen entirely . . 
. or
at least disable it by default for new installs.  If we were actively doing 
something
while that splashscreen was up - so it was more like a "Loading..." type screen 
-
that would be one thing, but as it is it's really only useful as a reminder of 
what
you're running.

I think I'm going to lean towards simply disabling this by default for now, 
affecting
new installs only...  Targetting for 1.0.

As far as the original splashscreens go, that was my initial (very bad) attempt 
at a
little humor, before I knew that a few tens of thousands of people would 
actually be
interested in the program.  Was supposed to look like someone'd spray-painted
graffiti all over the original PG2 splashscreens - seemed funny to me at the 
time,
but yeah it's total "programmer art": very, very lame.

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2009 at 10:04

• Added labels: Milestone-Release1.0

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Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2009 at 10:06

• Changed title: Disable splashscreen by default on new installs
• Changed state: Accepted

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This issue was closed by revision r163.

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 22 Sep 2009 at 3:01

• Changed state: Fixed

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Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 22 Sep 2009 at 3:01