Tobias Jakobs wrote:
I have an 6MB SVG image in my SVG folder and it took over half an hour to show the preview on my P800! It is even slow, if I browse some bigger PNGs. If you worry about not being up to date you can compare the timestamp in the thumbnail with the file date. And no, I don't think that thumbnails are garbage, as long as all programs use the same.
How about this for a short-term fix: we fstat() the file, get its size, and only preview it if it is smaller than some arbitrary amount.
And maybe, also, we show the file size on the "No preview" image?
Thumbnails would be nice, but maybe that is something best left until later. Right now we are just trying to get it to work. ;-) I am afraid that this dialog can become a full-time project on its own, and steal time from other more productive work. If people really consider thumbnails important, then I think that this will require another volunteer programmer. After all, SVG Editing is the core purpose of Inkscape, and we still need to work toward spec compliance.
Bob