r19733 - gnucash/trunk/src - Preferences window improvements:

[Mike Alexander]

--On November 1, 2010 10:43:40 AM +0100 Geert Janssens 
<janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> What is it you guys dislike about the splash screen ? I'm curious to
> understand.
>
> I have been looking at other applications with splash screens.
> * Gimp has no GUI option to disable it, but you can start it with
> gimp -s to  disable the splash screen.
> * OpenOffice doesn't have an option to disable the splash screen
> * Scribus does have a GUI option to disable the splash screen.

I often launch a program like Gnucash and then continue with something 
else while it starts up if it's going to take a while to start.  The 
splash screen makes this more difficult since it insists on being 
frontmost.  It's also a real nuisance if you're debugging startup code, 
but that of course doesn't affect normal users.  A command line option 
to turn it off would be ok if you don't want to clutter up the 
preferences.  I could also just delete the code from my copy, that's 
the advantage of open source software.

        Mike