Could some of the devs help with bug triage and comment on this recent report?
~suv
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Bug 733966] [NEW] Inkscape way to SLOW - Refactor Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:49:58 -0000 From: Gary <733966@...1882...> Reply-To: Bug 733966 <733966@...1882...>
Public bug reported:
Guys truly it is time to stop adding features to Inkscape and go back and refactor the code to fix bus and the terrible performance issues. There is little excuse for it to be at ver .48 and performance to be slow sluggish. Even the about box repaints the logo/image very slowly. That alone would have told me I have performance issues. At what point do you stop trying to add features and go back and address performance? My recommendation is to get a better handle and control over the development effort and split your team and branch to allow some to work on new features and others the refactoring of the code and eventual merge. When I launched it for the first time a while back I nearly laughed at the performance. Then expecting someone to address it in .48 would have been an expectation.
Do everyone a favor and place in your roadmap a REAL item to address performance and refactoring the code. This sluggish performance is across ALL platforms. For any developer on the team to be tolerant of such or even think of asking what hardware is foolish. Any junior level developer can easily determine the performance issues are within the code.
As of now I am going to kick off my own branch of this code and move it to QT4 for the UI and begin refactoring for performance. I will make that split in the branch available for those who want a highly performance version of InkScape.
I would invite you to address performance.
** Affects: inkscape Importance: Undecided Status: New