Re: [Gimp-developer] Reducing Load Time

[Tobias Oelgarte <tobias oelgarte googlemail com>]

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