On 10/04/2015 09:04 AM, Bryan Quigley wrote:
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.
The loading of any of these apps will also depend what other apps are
running or loading. I did a cold boot of LO and it took between 10 to 20
seconds on my 2007 laptop on Windows or Linux.
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?
For users who only see the splash screen for 1 to 2 seconds, it doesnt
take away from them to see it appear for those few seconds. Even on a
fast machine, there are instances when the splash screen will appear for
more than those few seconds, e.g. cold boot LO while you are compiling LO.
* 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..
If a user is waiting 10 to 15 seconds for LO to load and the splash
screen is there for most of that time, it wouldnt be a problem for the
splash screen to slow down the load by 1 or 2 seconds.
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?
Yes either it be done with a commandline switch for commandline users
and through an option in Tools > Options > General for gui users.
Kind regards,
Bryan
*My slowed VM is just Ubuntu running a VM with only 400 or so MBs of Ram.
My laptop - Intel Core 2 CPU @ 1.83Ghz and 2.5gb.
Regards,
Yousuf 'Jay' Philips
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