Guayadeque blocks my desktop with a blank splash rectangle

When I launch Guayadeque, it eventually launches its full window (after about 2 minutes). It's fairly buggy and unstable when running too, but a really valuable app for the music sources it serves up.

During the time it launches, it seems to paint an unmovable splash screen over the top of all my other windows, making the desktop unusable for about 2 minutes. This seems like an optional and probably buggy behaviour, and is fairly irrelevant to its role as a music player.

Is it possible to only show the splash screen for a certain limited period, or make it a splash screen which doesn't overwrite my entire desktop preventing me from seeing other windows.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: guayadeque 0.3.5~ds0-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 27 12:42:33 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-29 (29 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131017)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: guayadeque
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)