[Qgis-user] Serious bug returns to Qgis revision 13878

[Marco Hugentobler]

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 <gregcoats at mac.com> 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


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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
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