[GNC] Splash Screen disabled?

[R Losey]

I'm jealous of your computer speed. I see the splash screen for 5.8 on all
three platforms (I haven't downloaded the M1 version for the iMac, however)

On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 12:07 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Forgot to add that release 5.8 starts so fast that the splash screen never
> gets all the way to the display
>
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 12:03 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Gnucash mostly behaves this way.  The splash screen can be disabled if
>> desired.
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 11:57 AM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 9:34 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <
>>> stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>
>>> > > On 7/26/2024 7:24 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
>>> > >> I have 4.14 in Windows 10 and 11. The splash screen appears, the
>>> > >> progress bar for opening the last previously used file fills in from
>>> > >> left to right, and when that's done the splash screen disappears.
>>> The
>>> > >> whole thing takes about two seconds. I suspect that different times
>>> of
>>> > >> seeing the splash screen are not due to different minor versions of
>>> GC,
>>> > >> but rather to running on machines of different compute speed,
>>> possessing
>>> > >> SSDs or traditional hard drives, and so forth.
>>> > >>
>>> > On 2024-07-27 05:37, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote:
>>> > > We just had a different instance of this problem (window appearance
>>> > > too > brief to see)
>>> >
>>> > I was not reporting a problem, but responding to David Carlson's report
>>> > reported that the splash screen for GHC 4.8 persisted for a minute (!)
>>> > on his machine.
>>> >
>>> > > This is why ALL such displays should at the end incorporate a delay
>>> > > before closing, one or two seconds, independent of computer speed
>>> (don't
>>> > > waste time in useless processing; use a system call to "sleep for X
>>> > time).
>>> >
>>> > I don't agree. If the message, window, or whatever is worth seeing, it
>>> > should persist until the user dismisses it. A fixed display time is
>>> > going to annoy some (who just want to get on with their work) but its
>>> > information will be lost to others (who take their eyes off the screen
>>> > to pull papers from a file or pour a cup of coffee).
>>> >
>>> > And of course if it's not worth seeing, it shouldn't be displayed for
>>> > any amount of time, but rather written to the log file o perhaps the
>>> > trace file.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't agree; the purpose of a splash screen is to give immediate
>>> feedback
>>> that the selected program is starting, but not ready to be used.
>>>
>>> I have worked with programs that don't give any feedback for a
>>> (relatively)
>>> long time, and I'm never certain if I mis-clicked or if the program died.
>>>
>>> As a software engineer, some of our programs had human interaction
>>> requirements; one (rather old) was that any action taken by an operator
>>> had
>>> to provide some kind of feedback to the operator within three seconds...
>>> for example, if the operator attempted to sort a large list, we had to
>>> put
>>> up a message or popup or something to indicate "Sorting (please
>>> wait)...".
>>>
>>>
>>> A good splash screen should:
>>> (1) show up immediately (as soon as possible) after the user starts the
>>> program
>>> (2) Persist until the program is ready to interact with the user, and
>>> then
>>> go away.
>>>
>>> Exceptional programs have an option to display or not display a splash
>>> screen.
>>>
>>> And just to give another data point, my Win 10 box is the slowest; the
>>> splash screen is up for about 5-6 seconds. On my M1 iMac (using the Intel
>>> version), it's up for about 2-3 seconds. My Linux version doesn't get run
>>> as often, but I think it is up for about 2-3 seconds as well.
>>>
>>>
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Richard Losey
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Micah 6:8