Processing IDE (still) takes an extremely long time to launch

[tristanbay]

Description

The Processing IDE takes a very long time to launch.

First reported this with the Flatpak release about a year ago for Processing 4.2 (See #785), but I've confirmed that it happens with the Github download for version 4.3 as well.

Expected Behavior

Near-instantaneous launch

Current Behavior

The spash screen window loads as a white block and stays that way for roughly two minutes (without showing the actual splash design), then the welcome and IDE windows appear. No "application is not responding" message boxes appear during this time.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Download processing-4.3-linux-x64.tgz through GitHub page
2. Run install script with sh ./install.sh in the respective directory
3. Click the application icon in the GNOME icon area to launch the application

Your Environment

• Processing version: 4.3 (from GitHub or Flatpak)
• Operating System and OS version: Fedora 40 (Workstation edition), GNOME DE with Wayland
• Other information: Hardware is Framework 13 laptop with 12th-gen Intel Core i5 CPU

Possible Causes / Solutions

X vs. Wayland issue maybe?

This is what I get when I run the install script by the way:

Adding desktop shortcut, menu item and file associations for Processing...touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/home/tristan/.local/share/icons/hicolor/.xdg-icon-resource-dummy': No such file or directory
 done!

[BlueSage96]

I can confirm I'm having this issue on my M1 MBP.
OS: Sonoma 14.6.1
I usually download the latest version from the processing.org website.