[GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

[Moritz Lennert]

On 04/02/15 18:04, Vaclav Petras wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>> wrote:
>
>     This just makes the rectangle smaller, but I still see it without
>     the image for a while.
>
>
> I don't see the rectangle on Ubuntu but the splash screen is there just
> for a very short time comparing to how long nothing is visible. When
> starting GRASS for the first time after restart of computer I wait
> something like 7 seconds for the splash screen and splash screen is
> there just for 3 seconds. I guess this is not something we can change
> because when started for second time, the splash screen shows
> immediately, so the 7 seconds are for loading the wx libraries. I saw
> the same ratio of nothing and splash screen time on some MS Windows
> machines too.

Would it be possible to launch some hidden process earlier (i.e. while 
the user looks at the startup screen) that already loads the libraries ?

Moritz