SUMMARY *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** Krita takes some time to start up, even on my current machine, which is less than a year old. This is expected and perfectly fine, except that during this time, its splash window is modal—that is, above all other windows and incapable of being moved, or minimized—and worse, taking up extremely valuable real estate in the center of my screen. This basically makes my computer unusable until it is 100% loaded, which can take some time. I cannot think of any reason why a splash screen should be modal, and realistically there are few occasions that warrant any window to be modal anymore. I thought about making this a request, but ultimately I find it to be a serious flaw in the user interface and worthy of a bug. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Load Krita 2. Observe central splash window for some time. 3. Continue business as usual after you have your monitor back. OBSERVED RESULT There is no way to hide the Krita splash. EXPECTED RESULT Krita splash should be unassuming and follow typical layout manager rules. To be fair, I've only used it on XFCE lately, not the KDE desktop; but honestly, I know it's a special request either way, and it's still just not necessary. This should hopefully be relatively easy to patch. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: Mint 20.3 (XFCE) (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
But it's not modal on for me on Windows and KDE Plasma?
I guess Michael, despite not mentioning version and platform, uses a pre-5.0 distribution package -- this was changed since then.
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(In reply to Halla Rempt from comment #2) > I guess Michael, despite not mentioning version and platform, uses a pre-5.0 > distribution package -- this was changed since then. I guess this sounds silly, but I'm in fact on 4.2.9; I casually failed to realize that this is not the most current version of Krita, just the one from my package manager! It's good to hear that this has been fixed, and I'll look into upgrading. Apologies for the confusion!