On 30-9-2014 23:39, Josh Andler wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> wrote:
Tbh, on my core-i7, the startup time is long enough to warrant a splash screen. Plus, what is the downside of a splash screen? :)
On my 3 year old laptop i7 it takes ~2.3 seconds to launch experimental vs ~8 seconds for trunk. I'm not completely against a splash screen, but still think it boils down to us not optimizing enough if it's needed. Liam has done a great job improving the situation already which is why I specifically questioned experimental on older/slower equipment.
Indeed experimental is quite a bit faster. But when opening a complicated PDF with Inkscape, it can take a minute or so and in that case a splash screen would really be nice.
For me, a splash screen makes sense for start times above a second or so.
-Johan