Comment 38 for bug 413348

Okay, merged into bzr trunk.

I think this is about as good as it's going to get for Karmic. xsplash startup is really tight on resources as it is, which you probably notice even in a more typical setup by how the throbber is not completely smooth. Getting a resize event and having to scale the image again is most likely going to stress it out further and cause it to not respond for a moment.