On 25-9-2014 17:01, Martin Owens wrote:
On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 11:10 +0200, Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz wrote:
I dont know if this are discussed previously, but whats your opinion of a loading/running screen for inkscape?
This isn't my opinion, but it is the one I remember being talked about before:
"If Inkscape needs a loading screen, then it's failing to load quickly enough and we should spend time on making inkscape faster instead"
This argument does not make sense to me. It is trivial to make a splash screen that pops up instantly and will only slow down Inkscape's boot time by milliseconds. I do not see how this minor piece of work would detract significantly from other development work. I'd love to see a splash screen.
Of course the miserated speed of inkscape on anything other than a core2 is a real big problem. But something I don't think that can be tackled until we have paid developers who do nothing but speed improvement bugs.
I do not think we need paid developers to look into this. We just need *any* developer to work on this. We don't have to render icons from SVG upon startup, load all the systems fonts, etc. Just put in a few debug messages and see for yourself where Inkscape is spending a lot of time on boot. I'm sure others here can add to this list of straightforward tasks to speed up boot time, if anybody is interested. These areas could be worked on by any dev, not only paid devs specifically I feel.
-Johan