Hi, this bothered me as well, not so much because of file loading but because of reports.
I created Bug #506714 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506714 and attached a patch that adds a progress bar to the splash screen. Please review. If OK, please backport to stable. Herbert. Derek Atkins schrieb: > don Paolo Benvenuto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The splash screen says it's loading a file, but it has no progress bar. > > True... The splash screen never had a progress bar. What USED to > happen is that the incomplete application window would appear and IIRC > the progress bar was there. But then you'd see the window change > sizes and it was quite ugly and annoying and would move around the > screen. So that window was hidden until the file is loaded and the > load is complete. > > But now, as you've noticed, there's no visible indication that the > load is proceeding, or how far along the load is. You're in a > particularly unique situation because your data file is so huge, so > you're just seeing it even worse than anybody else. > > Unfortunately I dont have a good answer for you... We probably need > to either rethink the progress bar, or figure out the window sizes > earlier so we can display the window earlier. I'm not sure which is > more appropriate. However the fact that gnucash is single-threaded > just makes it all more difficult. > > So I'm afraid in the short term you'll just have to live with it. > Or maybe it's time that you split your data file into a smaller > bit? ;) > >> Besides that, if I switch to another application with alt-tab, the >> splash screen disappears. > > Now THAT is weird! > > -derek > -- Herbert Thoma Head of Video Group Multimedia Realtime Systems Department Fraunhofer IIS Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Phone: +49-9131-776-323 Fax: +49-9131-776-399 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
