On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Yousuf 'Jay' Philips <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/03/2015 11:42 PM, Heiko Tietze wrote: >> >> On Friday 02 October 2015 16:46:39 Bryan Quigley wrote: >>> >>> * Most other apps aren't using splash screens anymore. None of the >>> other apps on my Ubuntu desktop have splashscreens >> >> Gimp has a splashscreen, just to mention one
For comparison on my test "slowed" VM*. Gimp takes 16 seconds (w splash screen) And those without splash screens take: Firefox takes 10 seconds Gedit take 3 seconds Cheese takes 7.5 seconds Shotwell takes 3.7 seconds Rhythmbox takes 5.3 seconds I can't believe I forgot to mention that LibreOffice on cold boot takes 6-8 seconds to start, and on reload takes 3-5 seconds. There might be about a 1 second saving having no splash screen on cold start, but again I don't have enough significance or accuracy in the 6 (3 each) boot tests I ran. >>> * It's a reminder of what tool you are using. For users who don't >>> like LibreOffice this can cause a negative feedback loop. >> >> Or a positive for those who love LibreOffice :-) I did mention that the inverse is also true :). >> On the pro side >> * Splashscreen offers an easy way for branding Imagine the marketing story - LibreOffice is now so fast that it no longer needs the splash screen. On my machine that is already true, as LibreOffice takes maybe 1-2 seconds to load. Is their a consensus for the number of seconds where it's pointless to have a splash screen? >> * Slow maschines should be taken into consideration What if showing a splash screen makes these old machines take 14 seconds instead of 12? I'll see if I can find a real slow machine to test it on, but would certainly be interested in others results here. Ideally we would want to find a machine where LibreOffice takes longer than 15 seconds to start on.. >> I'd vote for a configuration switch, if at all, which is on by default. So the status quo is that you can add --nologo to the libreoffice command to have no splash screen. Is that what you are all agreeing to? Kind regards, Bryan *My slowed VM is just Ubuntu running a VM with only 400 or so MBs of Ram. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
