Hi guys,

Maybe this helps in solving the slow start mystery.

I had the slow start on win7 until I rebooted the machine. This morning Inkscape booted quite a bit faster, but the load screen had quite a bit of these warnings. Those however seem to be bogus as MS Serif is being loaded and usable. Not sure what the 10 is about though? Fontsize? Or did that accidentally get added to the string? In the latter case it wouldn't be surprising that Inkscape gets a wee confused.

For those that are wandering what the slow boot time is about, I would like to ask if they have large font sets on those win7, win8 and Mac. Large font sets have been a long standing issue for slow boot times and maybe it is related to that. This morning my Inkscape boot was faster than ever before though, regardless of the list of warnings.

(Inkscape.exe:6112): Pango_Warning ** couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. etc. Interesting as most win and mac do not have "Sans".

Oh, and another rather silly bug I found was at filling in the Dublin Core metadata. After typing in the first letter of the Title, the input loses focus it seems and nothing happens anymore (or it doesn't display) reselecting the field will allow you to finish the word. Doesn't seem like a biggie to me, but it IS annoying and highly visible to all and every user that would use the form. i.e. anyone who produces content professionally.

I would use the bugtracker if I was able to, but I have not been able to connect to it since I live in China. This may be an issue for Chinese people that would like to help with Inkscape dev as well. If tools are unreachable...

Continue to test.

Cheers,

Jelle