I'm not sure if it has become worse, Bulia, I just noticed it to be really, rally slow. Maybe that is due to the document I'm working with. I mean if your right about livarot, Mental, and I guess you are, it makes a lot of sense to me, that it's becoming slow, since I have a large text as curves in that doc and this means livarot will divide all the letters into tiny segments. I believe that just rendering the viewport or the viewport plus a border to allow rather fast movement on the canvas (is that the "dirty area"?) will speed up rendering a lot. Anyways, I know that there was a thread about this, but I obviously remembered the facts wrong because I thought it _was_ only rendered in the viewport. That is what really confused me, so sorry for bringing it up again. I don't care about it being in the release. I mean, it'll just postpone the release, and I can just as well build inkscape from cvs once it's in.
David