Startup time

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"hasmeta at yahoo.com" <hasmeta at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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?

No, there's no way to load them dynamically upon request because GnuCash
builds the menu items of reports dynamically.  This lets you effectively
drop in new reports and GnuCash will just load them and put them into
the menu for you.  You can't have it both ways, and IMHO being able to
dynamically add reports is more important.

> gnucash/business (?): I don't use business functionality at all; can this simply be removed through some configuration file?

Yes, you can remove the business modules.  But there's no configuration
file you can use to turn this off (although that's not a bad idea).  You
need to remove the business module files and then gnucash wont load them.

> Checking Finance::Quote: Why check every time at startup? Can't this be delayed until I request to get a quote?

It's done as a test to see whether to enable the Get Quotes button.
If it cannot find F::Q then the Get Quotes button remains greyed out.

That's why it's done every time.

> --Hasmet

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-derek
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