serious memory leakage while browsing svg files

[Qianqian Fang]

This problem is found with Inkscape v0.46 of a xubuntu 8.10 desktop. To repeat the findings, first open Inkscape, click on menu Help\About Memory, then, either File\Open or File\Import, browse to /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable, and click into any of the folder, single click on each of the svg files to preview, you can find with each click, the memory will bump by 1 to 3M, and keeps increasing; the longer you browse, the more it consumes. If you click "cancel", this memory will not release.

This problem even appears when the "Enable preview" checkbox in the import/open dialog is off.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

running Win32 Inkscape20105-081031.7z
I can confirm that there is a memory leak if Show Preview is On,
no memory leak if Preview is Off.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

Still repro.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15054 (GTK3)

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new
bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at
http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/201
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/Qantas94Heavy