Please let us modify the new Splash Screen

DoctorG

@npro Better than Made by Proud Boys for POTUS.

npro

@DoctorG where is such a webpage, I want to continue facepalming myself...

DoctorG

@npro No, sorry that was my theoretic haeretic signature idea for these Potussimum groups.

npro

@npro actually... maybe I should also change my signature to something completely ~~retarded~~ lovely with many now that I think about it...

DoctorG

@npro Two are a greeting to Dr. Who, you know?

Sorry, now i want a Splash with a TARDIS.

npro

@DoctorG no lol.

P.S. I will be away for a while need to work on my new hipster "I ooze love from every part of my body" signature ...

npro

@npro well it didn't take me that much tbh.

Looks nice, I feel complete and surrounded by love everywhere now. I want to express it with every post of mine.

I think I will celebrate it with the proper track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di18hTFTwIw

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

npro

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Pesala

@Stardust That won’t work for those who use a light theme. The easiest fix is to leave it as it is — a light blue background that is neither black nor white.

If the code has to determine the current theme before showing the background, it will not know until the browser starts up.

DoctorG

I would prefer Vivaldi not showing anything, means no window, until UI is loaded.
Then a V splash would be needless.

Stardust

@Pesala said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

@Stardust That won’t work for those who use a light theme. The easiest fix is to leave it as it is — a light blue background that is neither black nor white.

If the code has to determine the current theme before showing the background, it will not know until the browser starts up.

What kind a light blue background? Like in the 1st post for private mode?

That won’t work for those who use a light theme.

How they were even using it in current stable version before the change?

Edit: looks like current stable version has new splash already?

Stardust

@DoctorG said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

I would prefer Vivaldi not showing anything, means no window, until UI is loaded.

yep, I would rather have no splash at all than an ugly light splash

greybeard

@Pesala @DoctorG
Gee-whiz Batman... My laptop is a 10 year old i5-6200 (I think) with Win10.
Guess I should throw it in the dumpster (sans hdd of course).
Actually gonna put linux on it !! It doesn't need to be in the landfill.

Funny I always thought Vivaldi was made to be able to support older machines...

Pesala

@Stardust said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

I would rather have no splash at all than an ugly light splash

I wonder if this is even possible? As I understand it, Vivaldi uses code on top of Chromium to draw the UI. So if there is no splash screen, we will see the UI being drawn. FontCreator 15 shows a splash dialog, then draws the UI. Before that completes, this is what I see. Who cares? it only takes a few seconds to display the font.

FontCreator UI.png

@greybeard said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

My laptop is a 10 year old i5-6200 (I think) with Win10.

So you must be well accustomed to slow performance by now. Why is it an issue? If it is, upgrade your hardware, and give your old kit to a charity.

Stardust

@Pesala said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

I wonder if this is even possible? As I understand it, Vivaldi uses code on top of Chromium to draw the UI. So if there is no splash screen, we will see the UI being drawn.

IIRC there wasn't any splash screens at all in older Vivaldi versions. Also there are electron apps without any splash screens.

Stardust

@greybeard said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

Actually gonna put linux on it !! It doesn't need to be in the landfill.

Do it! LinuxOS and put SSD in it.

LonM

@Pesala The way the vivaldi UI is built (using react javascript), it builds up and then just shows all at once when it's ready, so no way to build up bit-by-bit as with traditional apps like your FontCreator screenshot shows. I suspect the choice is one of:

Hide the window and show it when ready, slowing down initial window appearance and making the browser seem slower to some users
A white window with no splash screen, which makes it look as though the browser is frozen mid-load, making the browser seem slower to some users
A basic splash screen which at least shows something indicating the browser is working before the UI is ready, but which some users perceive as slowing things down
An informative splash screen which explains what is loading, but which would be TMI for most users and would definitely slow things down

None of the options are great

Stardust

@LonM said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

None of the options are great

small spash screen in the center (dark one!) with cool loading animation. Like old Adobe Photoshop had iirc

LonM

@Stardust If that were an option I would agree. I think this works well with traditional apps because they can draw separate windows easily. But every time vivaldi wants to draw one it has to redraw the entire javascript/react stuff as a webpage, which is slow, so the simplest possible splash screen is best.

Libreoffice has nice art and a loading bar, Calibre has simpler art but a nice design and has a text box explaining what is loading, and Krita has a cute mascot with a text box explaining what is loading

barbudo2005

Priorities, users. Wouldn't it be more appropriate, as we approach June, to ask for progress on the built-in adblocker than to worry about this nonsense.

Sometimes it is convenient to have a little bashfulness in the requests. Just a little.