Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Start-up will go faster if some of the work is put > in threads. This is particularly true for disk reads. Indeed. Tux Paint is beginning to get *really* slow on start-up now (and I use --nosysfonts). And it will only get worse. (I've spotted many nice images from openclipart.org I'd like to include as stamps.) > When the canvas shows, only the paint tool needs to > be ready. Other stuff (stamps, fonts, magic) can > continue to load in the background. > > Three solutions to handle fast-clicking users: > > a. show the yellow-and-black stripes when the user > clicks on something that isn't ready (this is > what the "Open" tool does now) FWIW, I prefer this solution. But not *all* stamps have to be loaded to give access to the stamp tool, do they? -- Karl Ove Hufthammer _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
