Skating at Venice Beach, Los Angeles. Photo by Josh Hild. Update (2025-05-05): RStudio release planned for August 2025 will include a global option to turn off the splash screen and support click-to-close behavior. Starting with RStudio IDE version 2024.12.0+467, a redesigned splash screen replaces the previous app logo. This change was introduced in rstudio/rstudio#15347 and it looks like this: New splash screen design in RStudio IDE 2024.12+. While visually polished, the new splash screen feels slightly too shiny (no pun intended) and adds a delay to the perceived time before I can first …