On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Srihari Sriraman <srihari29691@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it possible to implement this change before the release of 2.8? > or is it too late? The window to get new features into 2.8 closed long ago. Lazy loading has been on the table for as long as I have been with the project, but it has never been important enough or desired enough to attract a developer to actually implement it and its not a trivial change to do so its actually beneficial. One of the main catches is that for most brushes, to get/generate the preview you need to load it at least once. And once you have loaded it whats the point of dropping it again? Way around it would be to cache previews, but then you would need to manage that collection, keep it in sync with what is and isn't on the disc etc. Whole bunch of complications making the effort spent greater than the benefits. I think last time it came up the recommended solution for these problems was a resource manager that would let users load and unload resource collections on demand and simply limiting the resources loaded at startup. This is something that could even be implemented as a plugin. -- --Alexia _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
