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....@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 <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 9:34 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < >> stan...@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. >> >> >> -- >> _________________________________ >> Richard Losey >> rlo...@gmail.com >> Micah 6:8 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ 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.
