add a splash screen on startup #1439
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@jmichault How about a screenshot please? Is it like the portable app version of Gramps ? |
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See Discourse forum discussion: "loader progress window" for previous discussions and capture of the PortableApps launcher/splashscreen A big question, how fast is this splash screen for the initial install launching of Gramps? Does it have the near half-minute delay while the Gtk libraries and their dependencies are cached before starting? If so, perhaps the Splashscreen (launcher) could be spun out into a GTK-free tiny application that sublaunches the Gramps application. (A question that then arises, what happens when you use Gramps to Open an associated filetype from the OS? Does that try to open the Launcher and have to pass-through the filename as a parameter when it sublaunches Gramps?) |
It's only the flash.jpg picture found in images directory. No progress bar. |
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FYI, that is a photo of Robert "Bert" Allingham, Jr. 1914–1988 ; the "Gramps" of the original author of GRAMPS 1.0, Don Allingham. The image is included for the About dialog. We might be better served by a higher quality version of: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/GRAMPS_logo.png Or a variant of the website's WordPress decoration (WITHOUT the OS mentions - due to Trademark hassles) https://gramps-project.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Gramps-Downloads-Main-2015-01.jpg |
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I don't like that and this splash screen must be an option. I don't want to have it. |
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How about if the Splash only appeared from the GUI launcher, not the console? |
The delay between double-clicking the application and the icon appearing can be long.
This pull request add a splash screen as soon as possible, allowing the user to wait.