Sven Neumann wrote: > > > >You should definitely increase your tile cache size from the default 10mb. > > >It should help performance. > > Shouldn't we increase the default for the tile_cache_size? GIMP was shipped > with the default of 10MB years ago. Memory is cheap nowadays and I guess we > can expect the average user to have more RAM available. I'd suggest setting > it to 32MB. Yes! > I want to present an older idea once again since the discussion about the > tile_cache_size is bac alive. I propose to add a dialog to the > user_installation step that lets the user specify the tile_cache_size and > the swap directory. Of course such a dialog would also have a few short > sentences explaining the importance of these settings together with hints > for a good choice. Yes(2)! > > However I've noticed that GIMP 1.1.15 has a little bug when changing this > > value with the Preferences dialog. It seems to be fixed to 10Mb, the only way > > is changing manually gimprc. ;) > > I've discovered this bug this morning, I'm not sure at all is a true bug, > > I haven't checked the sources yet. > > Anyone experienced the same problem? > > Here it works like a charme and IIRC has been fixed a week ago. Yes(3)! I noticed that some prefs. widgets were connected to the wrong varibles while browsing preferences_dialog.c. I hope that I've fixed all of them correctly. bye, --Mitch
