Startup time

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 18 15:16:28 EDT 2009


2009/8/18 Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>:
> 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....)

You could spend the time concocting additional Tips du jour for those
of us who have not yet worked out what it is all about.

Colin


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