Suggestion: how to give the illusion of a faster startup

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

I have a suggestion which i think would help give the illusion of a faster
startup, or at least make using Dia just a tiny bit more efficient.

What is the first thing almost every user does after the have opened
Dia?
They open a document,
and for the purposes of my suggestion I will also count opening a new
blank document.

What I am proposing is that at startup Dia should automatically open a
new blank document window.
(unless of a course the user passes in a document at startup)

Why dont I just go to the command line and type
 dia mynewfile.dia
???

I could probably do that but I was a click and drool destkop user long
before i was command line user and i think people use the
shortcuts/launchers to start graphical application more often than they
use the command line.

If the user then decides to open a new document (without having made any
modifications to the blank document) it would probably be better and
cleaner to simply reuse the already open window rather than creating a new
one and the user having to close the blank page.  This should also make
a preference to disable this proposed feature.

In both Dia and the Gimp i find that consistantly the first thing i need
to create a new document.  If this step is going to happen 99% of the time
i think it makes sense to optimize Dia for normal usage.
I should probably mention the words workflow and use case analysis to make
myself sound more intelligent :)

Does anyone else think this idea has merit?  If so i will file a bug
report.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/