This is a simple patch to remove the startup and shutdown animations in kmplayer. On Gentoo, just add this section to the ebuild: src_unpack() { unpack ${MY_P}.tar.bz2 cd ${S} epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-remove_animation.patch } Place the patch in the ${FILESDIR} and redigest the ebuild. Hopefully this is acceptable by original author.
Created attachment 76804 [details, diff] kmplayer-0.9.1a-remove_animations.patch
Patch is not needed. You only need to create two empty files; /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kmplayer/intro.xml and /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kmplayer/exit.xml and animations will be removed. (Change 3.5 to your version of KDE) eg. echo "" > /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kmplayer/intro.xml echo "" > /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kmplayer/exit.xml