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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Srihari Sriraman <[email protected]> > 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 never been important enough or desired enough to > attract a developer to actually implement it and its not a trivial > change to do so its actually beneficial. One of the main catches is > that for most brushes, to get/generate the preview you need to load it > at least once. And once you have loaded it whats the point of dropping > it again? Way around it would be to cache previews, but then you would > need to manage that collection, keep it in sync with what is and isn't > on the disc etc. Whole bunch of complications making the effort spent > greater than the benefits. I think last time it came up the > recommended solution for these problems was a resource manager that > would let users load and unload resource collections on demand and > simply limiting the resources loaded at startup. This is something > that could even be implemented as a plugin. > > -- > --Alexia > -- * * *Regards, * *Srihari Sriraman *
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