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

[Tim Sutton]

Thanks Marco!

Regards

Tim

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Marco Hugentobler
<marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
> 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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