[openlp-dev] Splash screens and logo screens

[Mat Jaggard]

Hi Phill,
The only use case I can think of for hiding the splash screen is where it
appears on the display monitor for some reason. We shouldn't make people
advertise OpenLP if they don't want to. The tricky part is working out
which is the display screen before most of OpenLP has started.

In my church, operators routinely shut down OpenLP due to the always-on-top
nature of the display and whilst for us the splash screen appears on the
operators monitor, I'd be a little annoyed if it appeared on the projectors
and I couldn't disable it.

I've also been wondering whether it's possible to have OpenLP on a simple
computer (possibly a raspberry pi or an old PC) with a single monitor and
just control it via the app. I've got no further than just thinking about
it, but other users may have done.

Mat.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, 09:54 Philip Ridout, <phill.ridout at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, 22:11 Raoul Snyman via openlp-dev <
> openlp-dev at openlp.io wrote:
>
>> I'd like to propose the following changes, in the hopes that they will
>> help to alleviate the confusion:
>> 1. Remove the option to hide the splash screen. I doubt anyone who
>> actually knows what this does actually uses it, and 99% of applications
>> out there that also have a splash screen do not have this option.
>> 2. Rename the "default image" to "Logo screen"
>> 3. Add the ability to "Show logo screen" (alongside Blank/Desktop/Theme)
>> 4. Go over our screen code again to prevent the display from showing up
>> on a computer with only a single monitor (this one is really tricky if
>> we want to continue to support single-monitor setups).
>>
>
> Sounds good. What about some kind of feedback, like text (like GIMP), i.e
> loading loading core.... Loading image plugin... Loading presentation
> plugin... etc, etc.
>
> Or how about a progress bar, or a spinner? Could fill that white ring just
> on the logo with blue.
>
> Phill
>
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