Could you please also test with default (new) preferences, and attach the old preferences file if this affects performance of the text tool in 0.91 and 0.91+devel (ignore 0.48 for now)?
Steps:
1) quit all running instances of Inkscape
2) rename or move the existing preferences file
~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml
3) launch inkscape again
4) repeat same tests
Could you please also test with default (new) preferences, and attach the old preferences file if this affects performance of the text tool in 0.91 and 0.91+devel (ignore 0.48 for now)?
Steps: inkscape/ preferences. xml
1) quit all running instances of Inkscape
2) rename or move the existing preferences file
~/.config/
3) launch inkscape again
4) repeat same tests