Comment 3 for bug 435692

How much time are we talking about until this happens?

Can you modify /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default so that it adds --timeout=120 (just picked an arbitrarily high number here) to the xsplash command?

What I'm getting at here is that I'm unsure whether xsplash is fading out because it's received signals from gnome-panel and nautilus, or if it's fading out because it has timed out. If it's timing out then --timeout=120 should increase the timeout so that it will wait longer and receive the signals from nautilus and gnome-panel. If it's fading because it's receiving those earlier than your icons are visible, that means we need to investigate our Nautilus patch and see if it can be improved.