Splash screen and paintera icon do not display properly Mac

[GenevieveBuckley]

On Mac the splash screen and icon are not displayed properly.

Details:

• Draga, Caleb and I saw this behaviour on an Intel mac.
• We installed the latest version of paintera (version 0.31.0) with: conda install -c conda-forge paintera
• We launched paintera from the command line using the command: paintera (we did this several times, in the context of timing the startup speed under different conditions

What we saw:

• There was no splash screen on startup any of the several times we launched it.
• The program icon was not a picture of the paintera logo, but instead was the same as the folder icon on Mac (we suspect this is the default).

What we expected to see:

• A nice splash screen while waiting for paintera to start up (I saw it work on Caleb's computer, it's great - even has a progress bar indicating how long you have left to wait. That really improves the user experience)
• The paintera logo included in the software icon.

[axtimwalde]

Ugh! Could you report what you see when you call:

java -version

?

[GenevieveBuckley]

EDIT: Oops, I responded here with details from my M1 macbook, and not the Intel mac we used originally to test this on. Apologies for the confusion.

java -version

I see this output:

(paintera-dev) genevieb@192-168-1-103 ~ % java -version openjdk version "18.0.1.1" 2022-04-22 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 18.0.1.1+2-6) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 18.0.1.1+2-6, mixed mode, sharing)

I'm' using SDKMAN so I could switch it to another version pretty easily to check things, if that's useful. We're pretty sure it needs to be Java 18 of some sort. Currently I have the Java.net 18.0.1.1-open version selected.

[GenevieveBuckley]

Oh, hang on - I forgot we used a different laptop! The comment above is about my M1 Mac laptop.

@DragaDoncila - can you run java -version on your Mac laptop (the one Caleb and I borrowed at Janelia) and tell us what it says?

[DragaDoncila]

Hello @axtimwalde @GenevieveBuckley, sorry for the delay on this reply!

(paintera) ddoncilapop@CZIMACOS3399 napari % java -version
openjdk version "11.0.9.1" 2020-11-04 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Zulu11.43+55-CA (build 11.0.9.1+1-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Zulu11.43+55-CA (build 11.0.9.1+1-LTS, mixed mode)