62209 - show version number (& build ID) on the splash screen

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Niko Pavlicek]

could we show the version number and the build ID on the splash screen?
that would be very useful if you have more than one version of mozilla
installed. Additionally the space in the bottom of the splash screen would be
used - it looks very "unfinished" in the current state.
very probably the wrong component, bud didn't know which to choose!

Comment 1

[Christian Mattar]

Attachment: GIF-File showing problem when using as background-image

Comment 2

[Christian Mattar]

Sorry, accidentally attached to the wrong bug.

Comment 3

[Jon Granrose]

hmm.  as far as I know, we don't have the capability to do that right now, all
we do is show a static image, so this is more than changing the existing build
system and hence not a build config issue.

punting to browser-general to see if asa has an idea who should get this.

Comment 4

[Jon Granrose]

doh.  actually remembering to reassign now...

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

making rfe.

Comment 6

[Tim Powell]

Showing other status messages on the splash screen is bug 35866. Adding the 
version number/build ID would be nice.

Comment 7

[James Paige]

Why is this bug blocking bug 35866 ? shouldnt it be the other way around? This
bug should depend on 35866

Comment 8

[Gregor Rosenauer]

hmm... this is actually a bug, too, not only a RFE:

>Additionally the space in the bottom of the splash screen would be
>used - it looks very "unfinished" in the current state.
This happens on Windows and BeOS, I guess on Linux, too: approx. 20 pixels are
cut off at the bottom of the splash-image, looks like it's intentional to show
some progress, but for now it's only blank, which looks ugly.

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

The splash screen isn't supported at all any more on the "new toolkit" platform that all Mozilla apps are using now, so we can't fix this.