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Welcome to Random Splash Screen for Eclipse.

Everytime Eclipse starts, Random Splash Screen overwrites Eclipse's splash screen with a random image picked from your personal image folder. This image is then displayed on the next Eclipse start. This works even when starting a new Eclipse runtime application from within Eclipse.

You can also disable Random Splash Screen and keep your favorite image forever, making Random Splash Screen a Splash Screen Picker as well.

Staring at the splash screen is not annoying anymore!

Installation

Install the Random Splash Screen plugin from this Eclipse Update Site: 
http://rndsplash.sourceforge.net/eclipse
In Eclipse, configure your personal image folder by going to Window/Preferences../General/Random Splash Screen:

Random Splash Screen has been successfully tested with the current "Eclipse Europa Winter" Release 3.3.2. It should work with 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 as well.

In the rare case of a disfunction

If the newly selected splash screen cannot be displayed by Eclipse for any reason, Eclipse fails to startup, quietly quits and places an error message located in your <workspace>/.metadata/.log file, stating something like org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Unsupported or unrecognized format.
In that case you must manually replace the "corrupt" splash.bmp file with a valid Window BMP image. Normally, splash.bmp is located in the <eclipse>/plugins/org.eclipse.platform_[version] folder. There, Random Splash Screen has created a backup of the original Eclipse splash.bmp: backup_of_original_eclipse_splash.bmp.

This is what has been done to make this error never happen:

  • The new image is first converted to a BMP, to a temporary file.
  • If that succeeds, the image is re-read the same way as Eclipse would do upon startup.
  • If that succeeds, the current Eclipse splash.bmp is replaced with the temporary file.
  • All of the above is protected by a try/catch(Throwable) block. If an error occurs there, its logged and Eclipse continues to startup.

Happy developing!