Quiet Mode

Description

Modern PCs have become so fast that displaying the splash screen takes just long enough to be annoying, but not long enough to actually read it properly. Also, when XCDG is driven entirely by scripts (for example, as a back end to corpus-error-mode), one does not even need see the main window.

XCDG should take a -q command-line option that causes the splash screen not to be drawn. This requires disentangling the startup `step' commands from actually building the application itself, and is not altogether trivial (or I would have done it).

As a bonus, another command-line option (-qq? --really-quiet?) should just pop up whatever tree windows are requested by scripts, and suppress even the main window (or perhaps create it iconified to begin with).

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