On 9/14/09, JiHO <jo.lists@...400...> wrote:
Some of it is due to things being added and added again to the UI without a general overhaul (which leaves Inkscape with 3 toolbars, a larger bottom bar, less screen real estate for the actual drawing, so many tools that they don't fit on a decent 1280x800 screen etc.). Most of the feeling of bloatiness, however, seems to actually come from slowness. Many new features make Inkscape so slow that they soon become unusable (blur, some LPEs, numerous snapping possibilites etc.).
...none of which existed 6 years ago :)
Not to say we don't need to speed it all up of course - but if you hide all toolbars you don't need and use only basic path objects, it's probably going to be just as snappy as those early versions. (Except for startup time, though, which now most directly depends on the number of fonts on your system.)