https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166128
--- Comment #4 from Michael Weghorn <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Hossein from comment #3) > (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > > I learnt from meeks, or was it kendy, that we show the splashscreen as very > > first item before any other library in order to show issues. If that wont > > happen, how about completely dropping the splash screen? It's not shown on > > macOS anyway. > I agree with you, and I give +1 for the complete removal. > > In OpenOffice.org 1.0, what I remember was a long wait until OpenOffice.org > came up, so that was necessary at the time. But now, it takes ~1 second for > me to go to start screen, and ~2 seconds to go directly to Writer. This is > on a relatively old machine, so I think the startup is good enough to remove > the splash screen completely. I suspect the main idea/point of the splash screen is to make the user aware that LibreOffice is in the process of starting and to bridge the time until LibreOffice is initialized and the main window shows up. On my (developer, i.e. faster than average) machine, the startup is also usually quite fast, but I've also seen ~10 seconds or more when starting LibreOffice in my Windows VM after deleting the user profile (in which case initialization takes longer) when the host system is more busy. > I have not seen meaningful messages from splash screen for a while. > Sometimes bunch of small text is written at the bottom which disappear fast, > but that is rare and not quite readable. Maybe Michael W can give a better > description about that. These are the message I see (on Linux, with qt6) when quickly adding stdout output in `SplashScreen::setText` and starting with a new profile: "Reinstalling all deployed packages..." "Synchronizing repository for shared extensions" "Synchronizing repository for bundled extensions" (There might be more in other circumstances, seeing how the above-mentioned method gets called could give more insights.) For me, too, the text isn't normally displayed long enough to be actually able to read it in the splash screen. > If there is no good reason to keep that, it would be better to drop it > completely. Let's hear other's opinions, and then I will create a separate > issue for completely dropping the splash screen. If the startup is very fast, there really doesn't seem to be a real reason to keep it, but it may still be slow for people on more low-end hardware or in specific setups, in which there might be a point in still having it. (So users notice that "Something is already happening, LibreOffice is not broken and refusing to start.") I'd leave that to the UX/Design team to decide. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
