Is it possible to implement this change before the release of 2.8? or is it too late?
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Tobias Oelgarte < tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I would really prefer that not all brushes would be loaded at start time. > Loading the small preview would be ok and could be very fast. But loading a > lot of big brushes takes really long and consumes a lot of memory, even so > most of them are just grayscale images. Would be really nice if it would > only load the brush as you click on it. Then it could use some kind of > little cache (e.g. 10 entries) for the last used brushes, so you can > quickly switch between them. > > My current load time is above 30 Seconds after a cold start (no files from > HD in cache). In this scenario it is far away from the default installation > that takes only about 5 seconds. > > Together with many plugins/addons it takes even longer. I guess that this > things should really be loaded at runtime, as needed, and not at the start. > > Greetings from > Tobias Oelgarte > > Am 06.12.2011 13:47, schrieb Srihari Sriraman: > > How about loading the UI first, and carry out the rest of the loading >> showing a progress bar at the screen bottom? (Better still, don't show >> loading progress at all :) ) >> So the 1-2 second start-up would not show any progress-bar on the splash >> screen... making the user feel awesome! :) >> >> Regards, >> Srihari Sriraman >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/**listinfo/gimp-developer-list<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list> > -- * Regards, * *Srihari Sriraman *
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