When using lyx 1.1.6 loading images was _slow_, but did not hinder editing of the document. I opened up the docs, scrolled to the place I wanted to work on, and started typing away. The images showed up eventually. Not so in lyx1.2.1. I open up a document, and scroll to the place I want to work at. The images I come across when scrolling get loaded, and most of the time, I find myself projected back to the beginning of the document once they're done (the cursor is still up there, I don't have the time to place it elsewhere). I repeat this process, three to four times, until all images are loaded - very annoying. Yes, that'll teach me to use the navigate menu to jump directly to the place concerned. But I'll stumble across the images eventually, and whatever I'm doing at that moment is interrupted until the images show up. In summary, I much prefer _slow_ loading in the background over _fast_ loading blocking the UI. I always found that speed and constant availability of the UI was one of the neatest features of lyx. Made work very smooth. I hoped that the view->dvi and stuff could get moved to the background, too, so I was very disappointed to see that, on the contrary, image loading is done in foreground now. This is the reason I still prefer 1.1.6.
Jan PS: I use lyx1.2.1cvs as of june 22, on Solaris(sparc) 2.7 and Linux(i386, Debian Potato). Both systems have xforms 0.89.6 and Image Magick 5.4.5.
