disabling splash screen?

[Aleix Pol]

+1
but I don't like changes so close to a release...

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Sven Brauch <svenbrauch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I vote for disabling it. It doesn't look that great, it doesn't have a
> progress bar, and the goal should be to make the application start up
> quickly enough so you don't need a splash screen.
>
> Cheers
>
> Am 8. März 2012 21:38 schrieb Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de>:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> at least on my machine(s?), the splash screen is just adding flickering noise
>> on startup. I'm thus wondering about what we should so about it:
>>
>> a) only show it "delayed", i.e. similar to the progress bar:
>> QTimer::singleShot(300, splash, SLOT(show());
>> instead of
>> splash->show()
>> in kdevelop/app/main.cpp
>>
>> note that this makes the splash go away, and just shows some other flickering,
>> which might be similar to the flickering seen when switching areas. So
>> something else to fix :)
>>
>> b) increase the timeout it's shown, e.g. right now we hide it 200ms after
>> initialization is done. If we'd increase that to say 1-2s it makes the startup
>> much nicer I think.
>>
>> So, what do you say?
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