Splash screen with Progress Bar - Ubuntu Linux

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Apaf should provide a splash screen functionality, that can be enabled by the developer, and used to provide a nice splash screen of the application at it's startup operations.

The splash screen functionality must be initially available on Windows.

An howto for the branding of Apaf application should be available explaining:

Specification of image formats for Windows to be used for splash screen
How to convert a standard image to that size for Windows
The splash screen may contain additional dynamic information on the application startup process, that the developer can feed with useful startup information.

It must be supported on the following platforms:

• Ubuntu Desktop 12.04