Startup time

[Doug Laidlaw]

Perhaps a bit of design philosophy here:  it seems that the target aaudience 
for GnuCash is business users, who open it first thing in the morning and shut 
it down last thing at night.  For them, I think that it is tremendous.  For 
them, the startup time doesn't matter.   They can set it to start 
automatically on bootup.

But there are a lot of users around like you and me, who open it once a day, 
and briefly.  What priority our needs should have is perhaps a matter for the 
maintainers.  I am quite happy to take second running.  Perhaps one day, a 
stripped down version could be made available, just as Quicken has a basic and 
full version.  

Just a thought.  I have tried several times to switch to  KMymoney, and I keep 
coming back to GnuCash.

Doug.

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:12:32 pm Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> I would be interested as well.  I asked the same question a while back.  I
> was told that I could delete the "business" part of the directory tree, but
> that seemed to make no difference to the startup time.  As I am using the
> latest source code, perhaps I can delete that BEFORE I compile, but (a) it
> will probably throw up ertrors during ./configure, and (b) that is of no
> help to a Windows user.
>
> Doug.
>
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:41:38 am hasmeta at yahoo.com wrote:
> > How can one opt not to load various modules so that gnucash starts more
> > quickly? I've noticed that during startup on my Windows XP system, it
> > loads many components that I either don't ever or rarely use. Here's a
> > snippet of some of the lines from the splash screen that I could catch:
> >
> > gnucash/report: I am assuming it loads available reports here. Is it
> > possible to load them dynamically upon request?
> >
> > gnucash/business (?): I don't use business functionality at all; can this
> > simply be removed through some configuration file?
> >
> > Checking Finance::Quote: Why check every time at startup? Can't this be
> > delayed until I request to get a quote?
> >
> > --Hasmet
> >
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