> 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. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
