Comment 18 for bug 183753

On 2008-February-18 , at 16:42 , katdeas wrote:

> about your build: EXCELLENT and well done, even works with Adler. the
> drop down takes a while to load, but when once it's loaded it scrolls
> comfortably.

it needs to render the fonts so a delay is to be expected compared to
a regular menu. I don't know the details of the implementation i.e.
wether it renders all fonts on first load or renders them as the
cursor scrolls down. given previous reports with chalkboard crashing
inkscape only when it was shown I am betting for the second
implementation, in which case there's nothing much to be done to
reduce the delay. I still tend to prefer the text and font palette
with a larger preview anyway ;)

I'm glad to know the new build works fine, that's a huge spine out of
our foot for the release. I was starting to have doubts about the
quality of this release.