It's also something every polished piece of professional graphics software has. I don't even mind if it shows for half a second before disappearing, it makes Inkscape look really fast in comparison to the competition instead of really slow. 2 seconds of splash screen to load a full vector editing software is great. Especially compared to the 5 to 10 seconds it takes Adobe Illustrator to load. Now compare that to 2 second (at least) to show any signs of life... Not as good. :) Doesn't feel as fast, even though the time waiting is the same.
On 1 Dec 2016 8:06 pm, "Victor Westmann" <victor.westmann@...400...> wrote:
+1 vote for the splash screen
It takes some seconds im my pc as well to open Inkscape.
On Dec 1, 2016 11:56 AM, "C R" <cajhne@...400...> wrote:
Yes, this is a great solution, and one I look forward to. It takes an average of 5 seconds for Inkscape to load a new file for me. It can take up to 20 seconds if I'm opening something with a lot of linked images. That's plenty of time either way to wonder if Inkscape is loading something, or activated. Sure, if we can make Inkscape load faster regardless of what else the system is doing, let's do that. In the mean time, there's an auto disappearing loading screen.
On 1 Dec 2016 7:22 pm, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 19:53 +0100, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
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, ...
There's a fairly good pattern to follow for this.
- New install, default to show the loading screen (it's a nice way to
introduce the user, show them the fancy about screen graphic and give inkscape a chance to load fonts, icon cache etc) 2a. If the load time was below 2 seconds, disable the loading screen in future. (Which improves speed slightly too) 2b. Otherwise show a loading screen. 2c. Optional extra! Apologise to user if it takes more than 20 seconds.
This way you can have an loading screen and yet have it very rarely show up. At most, we aim for people to have seen it twice, once when they first load that takes more than 2 seconds and once more when it takes less than 2 seconds and then turns itself off.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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