[openlp-dev] Splash screens and logo screens

[Philip Ridout]

Was Raoul who started this thread. Sorry this is offtopic, but have you
seen the show desktop option on the blank screen button?

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 03:29 Mat Jaggard <matthew at jaggard.org.uk wrote:

> 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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