Ted Gould wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:28 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
I don't find it too intrusive and annoying, but I think that out of respect for people with computers that lack the resources to update in a timely manner this is a must. L-systems and a few other effects would effectively be useless on those people's systems with only live-updating.
Well, there isn't "only live-updating". What happens is that the live update will run. If you hit "OK" you'll get a "Working" dialog while the effect completes. In reality, it should make script extensions seem much faster to those with slow computers because the script gets started while the computer is waiting for the human. We should get at least a couple second head start if not more.
In a nutshell, I'm not really against having it be turned on and off, but I don't see a use case for turning it off. I think it'll just turn into UI clutter.
Well, I have a test case for you. Please get out and dust off the machines we used at SCALE the past two years and test the effects on those. Those machines were painful to work with for standard use and I would be interested to know how smooth it feels. After all, we'll probably be using those boxes again next year, so it does make sense that they're tested.
For the record I had used autopackages to install on those machines. They can be obtained from http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/?C=M;O=D If we're lucky, Aaron will cut a new one with the most recent changes so you can test. I don't think we need to clutter up those boxes with all the dev libraries and such.
You may also want to dist-upgrade to Feisty while you're at it (as we'll probably have issues with the "current" versions of GTK and Cairo)... or you could do what I'd do and dist-upgrade them to Gutsy. ;)
-Josh