On Jul 6, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Martin Dobias wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Marco Hugentobler
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi William
>> 
>> Ah, good to know it is the icon generation that makes loading projects with
>> many raster layers slow.
>> 
>> Making a user option to disable layer icons sounds good. However, this would
>> involve a string change (option dialog). String freeze for 1.5 is already 
>> over
>> for a while now. So (unless there is a better solution for the problem 
>> without
>> string change) something for 1.6...
> 
> in my opinion, we could actually remove this feature.

+1


> I don't find it
> particularly useful (a raster scaled down to 16x16 pixels usually
> doesn't provide a good overview), it adds additional overhead when the
> raster layer is loaded and further complicates the complex raster
> code. Another argument could be that vector layer also don't have an
> icon containing the preview.
> 
> I'm just afraid of creating too many configurable options that barely
> anyone will understand their purpose.
> 
> Regards
> Martin
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