Splash Screen

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 23 16:52:46 EST 2011


On 23 January 2011 21:34, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> A few months ago, Geert made the splash screen go away for a few weeks, and there was a chorus of complaint... but the thing that's most irritating about the splash screen to those of us who don't like it is its insistence on being on top of everything else (especially the debugger).
>
> This can be changed with a one-liner:
> -    gtk_window_set_type_hint (GTK_WINDOW (splash), GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_SPLASHSCREEN);
> +    gtk_window_set_decorated(GTK_WINDOW (splash), FALSE);
>
> Is there anyone who *likes* the stay-on-top behavior of the splash screen? (There's at least one user who doesn't: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640335)

I also don't like on-top behaviour. +1 for making the change.  It is
very annoying not to be able to do other things while GnuCash is
loading.

Colin L


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