Splash screens should be disabled

[Richard Laager]

Splash screens serve no purpose. If I want feedback to show that an application is launching, that should be handled by my desktop environment (or whatever is launching that application).

Fixing this is as simple as adding -nologo to all of the .desktop files that are part of the openoffice.org package.

P.S. Finding this tracker was difficult. If this is the wrong place to file this, please let me know.

[Joel Bryan Juliano (joelbryan)]

you can just delete intro.bmp if you don't like them.

[Richard Laager (rlaager)]

That would get replaced on each upgrade, right?

What purpose does the splash screen serve?

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

There are no packages named oo.o2 anymore - rejecting that task.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

the rationale for having the splash screen are the somewhat long loading times, for the very same reason you do have a panel when starting your gnome or KDE session, which gives you feedback that something is going on.

[Richard Laager (rlaager)]

KDE provides application starting notification. If it's desired here, that should be added to GNOME, not OpenOffice.org.

Additionally, I remember hearing something a while back when Metacity implemented the flashing startup bar stuff that OpenOffice.org splash screens were a pain.

[Richard Laager (rlaager)]

Here's a mailing list thread about this issue in general:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2006-January/msg00124.html

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

the default won't change; you can edit /etc/openoffice/sofficerc to disable it (edgy)