On Monday 1 November 2010, Mike Evans wrote: > On Sunday October 31 2010 20:29:01 Mike Alexander wrote: > > --On October 30, 2010 10:55:24 AM -0400 Geert Janssens > > > > <gjanss...@code.gnucash.org> wrote: > > > * General: remove "Show splash screen" option > > > > I'm disappointed you removed this. I find splash screens annoying > > after the first 50 or so times I see them and generally turn them off > > if possible. Perhaps it's just me, but I suspect others might agree. > > > > Mike > > I tend to agree, I turned off the splash screen many moons ago. > Mike E > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > That's interesting, thanks for your feedback.
I like a splash screen for slow loading applications as it is a fast feedback that the application is effectively loading. I've seen many users click twice or three times on for example firefox because there was no immediate response. Particularly with GnuCash the time "nothing seems to happen" is very long without the splash screen. What is it you guys dislike about the splash screen ? I'm curious to understand. I have been looking at other applications with splash screens. * Gimp has no GUI option to disable it, but you can start it with gimp -s to disable the splash screen. * OpenOffice doesn't have an option to disable the splash screen * Scribus does have a GUI option to disable the splash screen. So apparently all variants exist. My main motivation to remove the option was simplification. Many applications suffer from "optionitis". With that in mind I figured an application either has a splash screen or it has not, but adding an option for it only clutters the GUI. After your feedback and looking at the other applications, I realize my train of thought may have been a little too.. well, simple... Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
