GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 457944
startup delay
Last modified: 2018-06-29 21:43:20 UTC
Some weeks ago we changed the startup sequence: The main window now only shows up after all reports are computed. I have a couple of reports open, so it takes quite a while until the main window shows up. I find this quite annoying. Can we change this back or make it configurable?
Comment by Derek on gnucash-devel: Hmm, that's a good point.. The reason this change got made was because it was visually unappealing to have the window show up before it's fully drawn. It winds up resizing itself multiple times and then relocates itself. So the idea was to delay the visibility until it's done, and the splash screen would show you that something is happening.
The problem is that the splash screen disappears after about 10 seconds but the main window only appears a lot later. So a solution would be to really show the splash screen until the main window shows up (and displaying something like "rendering report <report name>" in the status line of the splash screen).
Created attachment 92921 [details] [review] patch to keep splash screen during file loading - do not destroy the splash screen during file loading - display which reports are rendered in the progress field of the splash screen
r16378, will be in 2.2.1. This is awesome, thanks! :)
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