I’ve been through the options a few times and haven’t ran across the option yet, but since virtual all programs have the option to hide splash screens I assume I’m just not looking in the right place.
The splash is blinding white, and I often write in the early morning on dark themed software. The long lasting bright white splash screen is kind of intense, so as a note to the devs when Scrivener is set to dark mode it would be nice if you’d switch the splash screen to a dark version too.
Hi.
If this is what you mean :
Then check this option :
There is otherwise no way to remove it, as it is not a splash screen, and the software wouldn’t then know what to do.
The project template selection tool does use the theme, so if you have a dark theme applied it won’t be blinding bright.
You must mean the “S” icon that shows loading progress on initial start? Because that does just use white no matter what. I am unaware of any way to turn that off (though maybe there is a flag I don’t know about?). Having a dark version of that could be nice—but that would have to come along with a larger look at that since there isn’t actually a “dark mode” at the moment. Themes just have total control, so one can in effect make everything dark, but it’s not traditional toggle in that sense, where the software knows it is in dark mode and reacts accordingly for stuff like this. We do need to do that, as there are some other things that could be made better around having a stronger dark/light model (like handling text colour and highlight backgrounds legibly in both light and dark editors).
Hello. You can possibly reduce the light contrast by enabling night color. In all my systems I always have it activated at 4200 K. This way it will not bother your eyes.
Regards.
Indeed, adjusting the whitepoint can help a lot. I have a setting in my monitor that cuts out blue light, and it reduces a lot of “shock” from stuff like this.
I actually already do that. I’m very sensitive to bright colors in the morning, and use my computer with lower contrast, a physical blue blocking screen protector, and my prescription glasses are amber tinted. But flashy white splash screens are still enough to hurt. Especially when everything else on the system is dark.
You’d need some brightness limiter app. Something to compress it. I don’t know if such a thing exists…
Much better if the dev’s just see this and add an option to disable the splash screen, if there really isn’t one already that’s just being overlooked somewhere. It’s pretty common to have an option to disable a splash screens. Though in some programs it’s a command line augment like in word you need to use /q to disable the splash screen.
I’m already aware and use a lot of programs to manage vision strain, the issue is: Everything else on my system in the morning is setup for dark, so any light elements cause issues, and in this case the app has no other large light elements once switched to dark mode except for it’s splash screen.
The user can hide the splash screen by clicking on it with the mouse.
Interesting.
In that case one could launch Scrivener using an AutoHotKey script that would also take care of that…
