Hiya guys, this is my first post.

I have read the DOCs and tried a google for this info.

I am using inkscape on both MacOSX and Win32 for my PhD thesis diagrams. Its excellent, all credit to you guys for producing an excellently usable vector package.

My comment is it is extremely slow (up to 15s to display the contents of a directory) when using the save as or open or any file handling through the GUI. In fact its so slow I use the OS finder/explorer as much as possible (1 -- 2s to display) to get about giving inkscape direct paths via cut and paste.

Is this a known issue?

Is it caused by trying to generate thumbnails for each file?

I am using 0.43 at the moment.

Cheers, and hope this hasn't been addressed elsewhere.

Matthew Swabey