I'm jealous of your computer speed. I see the splash screen for 5.8 on all three platforms (I haven't downloaded the M1 version for the iMac, however)
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 12:07 PM David Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgot to add that release 5.8 starts so fast that the splash screen never > gets all the way to the display > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 12:03 PM David Carlson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Gnucash mostly behaves this way. The splash screen can be disabled if >> desired. >> >> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 11:57 AM R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 9:34 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > > On 7/26/2024 7:24 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: >>> > >> I have 4.14 in Windows 10 and 11. The splash screen appears, the >>> > >> progress bar for opening the last previously used file fills in from >>> > >> left to right, and when that's done the splash screen disappears. >>> The >>> > >> whole thing takes about two seconds. I suspect that different times >>> of >>> > >> seeing the splash screen are not due to different minor versions of >>> GC, >>> > >> but rather to running on machines of different compute speed, >>> possessing >>> > >> SSDs or traditional hard drives, and so forth. >>> > >> >>> > On 2024-07-27 05:37, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote: >>> > > We just had a different instance of this problem (window appearance >>> > > too > brief to see) >>> > >>> > I was not reporting a problem, but responding to David Carlson's report >>> > reported that the splash screen for GHC 4.8 persisted for a minute (!) >>> > on his machine. >>> > >>> > > This is why ALL such displays should at the end incorporate a delay >>> > > before closing, one or two seconds, independent of computer speed >>> (don't >>> > > waste time in useless processing; use a system call to "sleep for X >>> > time). >>> > >>> > I don't agree. If the message, window, or whatever is worth seeing, it >>> > should persist until the user dismisses it. A fixed display time is >>> > going to annoy some (who just want to get on with their work) but its >>> > information will be lost to others (who take their eyes off the screen >>> > to pull papers from a file or pour a cup of coffee). >>> > >>> > And of course if it's not worth seeing, it shouldn't be displayed for >>> > any amount of time, but rather written to the log file o perhaps the >>> > trace file. >>> >>> >>> I don't agree; the purpose of a splash screen is to give immediate >>> feedback >>> that the selected program is starting, but not ready to be used. >>> >>> I have worked with programs that don't give any feedback for a >>> (relatively) >>> long time, and I'm never certain if I mis-clicked or if the program died. >>> >>> As a software engineer, some of our programs had human interaction >>> requirements; one (rather old) was that any action taken by an operator >>> had >>> to provide some kind of feedback to the operator within three seconds... >>> for example, if the operator attempted to sort a large list, we had to >>> put >>> up a message or popup or something to indicate "Sorting (please >>> wait)...". >>> >>> >>> A good splash screen should: >>> (1) show up immediately (as soon as possible) after the user starts the >>> program >>> (2) Persist until the program is ready to interact with the user, and >>> then >>> go away. >>> >>> Exceptional programs have an option to display or not display a splash >>> screen. >>> >>> And just to give another data point, my Win 10 box is the slowest; the >>> splash screen is up for about 5-6 seconds. On my M1 iMac (using the Intel >>> version), it's up for about 2-3 seconds. My Linux version doesn't get run >>> as often, but I think it is up for about 2-3 seconds as well. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> _________________________________ >>> Richard Losey >>> [email protected] >>> Micah 6:8 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >> -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
