Bug 46365 - LibreOffice starts up slow enough to need a splash screen
Summary: LibreOffice starts up slow enough to need a splash screen
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Master old -3.6
Hardware: All All
: medium major
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Reported: 2012-02-20 12:20 UTC by Shawn T.
Modified: 2019-07-25 17:23 UTC (History)
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Description Shawn T. 2012-02-20 12:20:58 UTC
http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2012/02/splash-screens-sloth.html

Kas Thomas has made a series of impressive arguments stating that a program of this magnitude (he explicitly calls out OpenOffice as an example) should start up quick enough to not need to show any sort of splash screen.

But still, it'd take a bit of work in order to achieve this.
Comment 1 Florian Reisinger 2012-05-20 11:06:12 UTC
To be honest: In LibO 3.6, you could forget the splash screen (With todays master ~1 sec...)
Comment 2 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-23 02:33:19 UTC
Thanks for bugreport
Developers working on it. Improving performance is also among tasks for GSoC 2012.
Comment 3 mlinksva 2012-06-08 11:42:56 UTC
Please remove the splash screen. It cannot contribute to faster startup and feels like a relic. 3.5 is already fast enough to remove it IMO, but if 3.6 startup time is ~1 sec, there's no rationale for keeping it in that future version. In my opinion. :)
Comment 4 sasha.libreoffice 2012-06-09 06:27:51 UTC
Bug not all users have so fast computers yet
Comment 5 Stefan Knorr (astron) 2012-06-22 16:40:45 UTC
Maybe it would be a good idea to think about automatically enabling/disabling the splash. There are probably enough users that are stuck on machines that take 10 or more seconds to start LibreOffice. However, the lots of others are far below this mark.
Thus, maybe LibreOffice could time whether splash would just produce "flicker" or whether there is any value in showing it – it would time the first few starts and then decide whether to turn it on or leave it off.

(Maybe that idea is too complicated and users will find this behaviour "buggy" (=unpredictable), though...
Comment 6 Cor Nouws 2012-07-13 18:54:55 UTC
Hi,
Speed of starting LibreOffice and opening documents is constantly watched, and people work on improvements.
Any bugreport pointing to special bad situations or regressions, are welcome indeed!
But sorry, this specific bug report is invalid, IMO.
Cor
Comment 7 MabelHKerr 2019-07-25 17:23:07 UTC Comment hidden (spam)