Startup time

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Eric Anopolsky<erpo41 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 12:00 -0400, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>> The point I am making is that even were I entering just one transaction,
>> the time to do that making sure all was correct going to dwarf start up
>> time.
>
> I agree. This is a good technique for reducing the perception of having
> to wait. Maybe the gnucash splash screen could remind the users that now
> would be a good time to gather documents for entry?

Or the splash screen could play 20-30 seconds of a movie about
accounting principles! :-)

I have not turned off the Tip of the Day, so that gives me a window to
fiddle with for a few seconds during startup. (Of course, at this
point I have read all the tips of the day several times....)