Splash Screen

[Anthony Dardis]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:52:46 -0500, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>  
wrote:

> 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

The on-top behavior is pretty unusual; it may give new users the  
impression that GC isn't quite ready for prime time. +1 for changing it.