[Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-05 Thread Srihari Sriraman
Hey, We all know GIMP takes a small while to load, and it is criminally less than Photoshop or such heavy Softwares... But can we do something to decrease the load time even more? Maybe load it as fast as a plain text editor? Maybe... - Bring up the GIMP windows before the loading is complete

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-05 Thread Paka
* Srihari Sriraman [12-05-11 11:27]: > We all know GIMP takes a small while to load, and it is criminally less > than Photoshop or such heavy Softwares... > But can we do something to decrease the load time even more? Maybe load it > as fast as a plain text editor? perhaps investing in an ssd dri

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-05 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Paka wrote: > perhaps investing in an ssd drive for your operating system and gimp will > suffice.  Below is the time from requesting load to mouse clicking on the > kill button. > > 15:32 Crash: ~/Documents > time gimp > > (gimp:9740): GLib-WARNING **: goption.c:2

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-05 Thread Srihari Sriraman
> > Because you don't use extra plug-ins, scripts and, especially, brushes. So true... Mine takes quite a while... like 10 seconds... I'm thinking 1 to 2 seconds would be good. How about loading the UI first, and carry out the rest of the loading showing a progress bar at the screen bottom? (Bett

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-05 Thread Srihari Sriraman
> > Because you don't use extra plug-ins, scripts and, especially, brushes. So true... Mine takes quite a while... like 10 seconds... I'm thinking 1 to 2 seconds would be good. How about loading the UI first, and carry out the rest of the loading showing a progress bar at the screen bottom? (Bett

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-06 Thread 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, Sr

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-06 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
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 wou

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-08 Thread Srihari Sriraman
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 co

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: > Is it possible to implement this change before the release of 2.8? > or is it too late? Too late Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-deve

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-08 Thread Alexia Death
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: > Is it possible to implement this change before the release of 2.8? > or is it too late? The window to get new features into 2.8 closed long ago. Lazy loading has been on the table for as long as I have been with the project, but it has ne

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-08 Thread Srihari Sriraman
Resource manager plugin sounds interesting... Maybe a category in preferences where users can check the resources they want to load on startup... Cool On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Alexia Death wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Srihari Sriraman > wrote: > > Is it possible to implement

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Antonishen
There is the python plugin GURM http://registry.gimp.org/node/13473 I use the default resource set, and then GURM to dynamically activate brush/gradient/pattern/palettes once gimp is running. It also does scripts but I do not use that feature. It can't do plugins as there is no way through the e

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-08 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 08.12.2011 14:04, schrieb Alexia Death: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: Is it possible to implement this change before the release of 2.8? or is it too late? The window to get new features into 2.8 closed long ago. Lazy loading has been on the table for as long as I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-08 Thread Ofnuts
On 12/08/2011 02:04 PM, Alexia Death wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: Is it possible to implement this change before the release of 2.8? or is it too late? The window to get new features into 2.8 closed long ago. Lazy loading has been on the table for as long as

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-09 Thread Alexia Death
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Ofnuts wrote: > IMHO the problem is more with the current single-level display of brushes. > Gimp will look in subfolders of the declared folders, but it should allow > some hierarchical navigation as well. The current interface must have been > designed when the de

Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

2011-12-09 Thread Srihari Sriraman
Somehow I lost focus on what i had suggested earlier... Lazy loading apart, can we bring up the windows and allow new file creation or importing files, while the brushes get loaded in the background? On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Alexia Death wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Ofnuts w