Hi all On July 11, 2010, commit r13904 adds an option to disable raster icons.
So anyone that encounters slow project loading with many raster layers may uncheck the box Options->General->create raster icons in legend. No need to delay the release because of that. Regards, Marco Am Sonntag, 11. Juli 2010, um 23.10:07 schrieb Tim Sutton: > Hi > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Greg Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tim, > > That is great. Thanks. > > Note: Please keep discussions on list. > > Regarding your message below, I am happy to delay for a week or so, > but at some point the release will have to go out so please dont > consider my previous message a committment to indefinately delay the > release - we will make the release when there is sufficient concensus > to do so - hopefully with your fix included. > > Regards > > Tim > > > Below is a quick review, beginning with my initial report on Jan 4, 2010 > > about the Qgis slow start up issue. Basically, Qgis originally started > > up fast, then slow, then fast, then slow, then fast, apparently because > > some code has been added and removed, multiple times, to the Qgis code > > that gets compiled Greg > > > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Greg Coats initially reported the Qgis slow > > start up problem, with Qgis 1.3. > > > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote that the Qgis slow > > start up was a detrimental "side effect of my changes for large format > > printing." > > > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote "r12815 contains a > > fix for the multiband display problem." > > > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:58 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote that Marco's > > r12815 "fixed the speed problem opening Greg's sample project!" > > > > A few days later, Qgis officially announced their decision to release > > Qgis 1.4 anyway, with the slow start up problem, but Qgis made a > > commitment to not release Qgis 1.5 with the slow start up problem. > > > > On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Greg Coats wrote that > > Qgis r13519 opens the Qgis project in 2 seconds > > Qgis r13597 opens the Qgis project in 360 seconds > > Qgis r13878 opens the Qgis project in 400 seconds > > I was disappointed to see that the slow start up problem had return to > > Qgis, after it had been eliminated 5 months ago. > > > > On Jul 5, 2010, at 1:51 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote that the slow start > > up was directly attributable to re-adding in r13750 the code that was > > originally shown to have caused the slow start up. > > > > On Jul 8, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote that he had again > > removed the code that causes the slow start up, and so Qgis r13899 does > > not have the slow start up problem. > > > > On Jul 10, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Tim Sutton wrote that it is OK to delay the > > release of Qgis 1.5, so that it does not have that the slow start > > problem. I am pleased with this decision. Greg > > > > On Jul 10, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Tim Sutton wrote: > >> Hi Guys > >> > >> Sorry for the delay. Seems ok to change it - some people will just get > >> english. Though its strange that that is causing his project slowdown > >> since the legend preview stuff has been in QGIS for many versions now. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Tim -- Dr. Marco Hugentobler Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions Webereistr. 66, CH-8134 Adliswil, Switzerland [email protected] http://www.sourcepole.ch Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
