Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[Glenn Morris]

David Kastrup wrote:

> a) use an idle hook (triggered on 5 seconds of idleness) that will
> replace the echo area message with the pointer as long as fewer than
> 30 seconds have passed (that would presumably help against autoload
> messages and/or garbage-collect messages and/or autosave messages).

The VM mail reader does something like this. I've never found it
obtrusive, and it has actually made me notice the message, many times.
If it were a splash screen thing, I'd have turned it off ages ago.