Background white when loading immediately after launching

[jacobmischka]

As of 0.4.0, the main window is always black on white before initialization is finished. Prior to this version, it would immediately launch with my colorscheme. It does load eventually, so this isn't a huge deal, but it's a bit jarring to see the bright white window for a few ms now.

Kooha-01-23-2022-04-34-59.mp4

Technical information (please complete the following information):

• OS: Arch Linux
• Neovim version: 0.6.1
• Neovim-Gtk build version: 0.4.0 (976693e)

[jacobmischka]

Hm. I could have sworn that the colors were correct immediately, but maybe I was wrong. I'll have to investigate more on my other computer tomorrow which I haven't updated yet, because I can't seem to find a commit now that behaves as I remember.

At the very least, the default change from dark background to light in f0d9019 is noticeable.

There's not necessarily a "correct" assumption between light and dark as a default, though dark seems to have been the previous behavior and seems more likely for neovim users.

[Lyude]

Hm. I could have sworn that the colors were correct immediately, but maybe I was wrong. I'll have to investigate more on my other computer tomorrow which I haven't updated yet, because I can't seem to find a commit now that behaves as I remember.

At the very least, the default change from dark background to light in f0d9019 is noticeable.

There's not necessarily a "correct" assumption between light and dark as a default, though dark seems to have been the previous behavior and seems more likely for neovim users.

Mhh - I didn't even think about this when changing it, as I generally run with solarized. It would probably be good to make sure as well that it's actually still on the default color when initializing and that the autocmd we execute when starting up to read the initial background state hasn't been executed yet. With that being said though, I'm happy to switch the default back to dark - I think most people would prefer that, and it would be better to maintain the previous behavior we had. I should note though, I've been considering replacing the loading screen when I start coming up with a DrawingArea replacement for #8, so in the future we may simply do something like display a spinner against the system theme's background and not use the nvim colors there.

[jacobmischka]

👍

I could have sworn that the colors were correct immediately, but maybe I was wrong. I'll have to investigate more on my other computer tomorrow which I haven't updated yet, because I can't seem to find a commit now that behaves as I remember.

I was misremembering (vividly!) because it was just white-on-black before. Appreciate the swap!