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[Magnes <magnesus2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Such long load times make Inkscape unusable for work when you have a lot
of files to look through or modify. There should be an option to fix it
- and not by deleting fonts. For example Inkscape should load fonts in
the background - and only show those that are already loaded.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488247

Title:
  Inkscape is slow starting

Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool:
  Triaged
Status in “inkscape” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “inkscape” package in Arch Linux:
  New
Status in “inkscape” package in Debian:
  Confirmed
Status in Gentoo Linux:
  Unknown
Status in “inkscape” package in Mandriva:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Hi,

  Although Inkscape is a nice program, I recognize that it's becoming slower and 
  slower each time a new version is released.

  Also I have compiled inkscape from subversion (Revision: 22608) in a Ubuntu 8.10 box.
  (Intel Core 2 duo 1.8 GHz and 2 GB of RAM) 

  In the build I have disabled the -g option in all the Makefiles, but launching inkscape 
  takes more than 10 seconds!!  And in its actions it demostrates that it has become slower.

  Is any way to improve the performance of Inkscape (for example, using a separate thread to loading the
  plugins, using a load of components by demand, using OpenGL+Shaders for drawings,...)

  I have some knowledge of optimization in C/C++ but I know next to nothing how Inkscape has been 
  programmed.

  Thanks guys for this great program.

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