On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 07:53:48PM +0100, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2016, 13:36:13 CET schrieb Martin Owens:
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 14:23 +0000, C R wrote:
Will this graphic be featured on the loading screen as well (when it's implemented)?
Yes.
The about screen graphic will also be featured on the inkscape.org home page and on some merchandise in the shop. The shop stuff will have to be tested to get it right.
How long does Inkscape take to start for you? Here it's coming up basically instantaneous. So I wonder if a loading screen is really needed, or if the work to add that should maybe be spent in fixing slowness in startup instead, like caching icons, querying fonts in a separate thread, ...
Inkscape also starts up acceptably fast for me on my system, and I would not like to see it burdened with a startup screen. But I know it is considered traditional and fairly common on Windows. I am -1 to adding it in general (I'd rather see attention going into speeding up the load), but would be open to a compromise of having a build option to enable/disable it, and leave it to packagers to decide whether to have it or not for the platform in particular.
Bryce