Personal opinion (so one anecdote, take with a grain of salt), but I hate welcome screens. Developers should really avoid wasting any time on features that peo

Personal opinion (so one anecdote, take with a grain of salt), but I hate welcome screens. Developers should really avoid wasting any time on features that people could actually despise. Applications are tools; they should launch as quickly as they possibly can and with minimal fuss. They should not presume to guess what the user might want to do, otherwise they turn into Microsoft's "Clippy". If I launch a program I have a purpose in mind, and I know how that task is usually accomplished, e.g. in my mind I am thinking that the first thing I'll do after launch is to open some menu command. Absolutely anything that gets in the way of my "plan" feels like an unwelcome distraction.