Re: [Inkscape-devel] my latest commit: a followup

2009/10/25 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>:

only barely useful) and on the About screen, which makes my teeth cringe when I need to wait 3 minutes for the artwork to render just to see the version number. It would be more user- and developer-friendly to prerender the artwork at build time instead (using Inkscape, of course).

I disagree. Prerendering wouldn't be a honest tactic :) We must focus on our real rendering speed instead, not erect false walls. Also, I (and perhaps others) routinely use the About screen as a sort of quick and imprecise benchmark to get an idea of how fast a new computer is.

If you want to find out the version/build quickly, just run inkscape --version.