Immediate launch of application window in 2026
Photoshop as an example, but actually this concerns all Adobe products: please launch the application window immediately behind the splash screen, instead of showing only the splash screen for several seconds.
Splash screens without application window are nothing but inconvenient. Since Mac and Windows are both fully multi-desktop platforms in this day and age, it creates the following
Problem:
- Quickly swipe to an empty desktop to launch Photoshop, Illustrator or another Adobe app.
- Splash screen appears. You already know it takes several seconds, so you swipe back to another desktop to do whatever relevant.
- The Adobe app will now open on the active desktop; NOT on the empty desktop where you wanted to open it, and where the splash screen appeared.
Solution:
Launch the actual application window (placeholder) immediately behind the splash screen while the app is loading up. This way the application window does not launch on another desktop if you switch desktops while the app is still loading/launching. Many non-Adobe apps that take a while to load up work this way, and I find that very convenient compared to how Adobe products handle the loading.
