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> But I don't want to argue with you about the usefulness of having so many fonts installed.
It was just an advice that might help reducing the starting time in the meanwhile. Of course, it doesn't imply that your point is automatically invalid. If you say that other apps don't take that long probably there is a problem somewhere inside Inkscape's code. The developers with knowledge on fonts will have to voice their opinions.
About Scribus: it does a check at startup discarding faulty fonts. Depending on the origin of your fonts some of them might be faulty. One idea is that Scribus might be aware of faulty fonts and avoids loading them completely while Inkscape might be oblivious to the quality of the fonts and tries to load them at any cost, maybe causing further problems down the road (a slowdown in your case). An interesting test would be to check if Scribus is listing all of the fonts you've installed. If some font is missing, that would mean it is broken. Try to uninstall it and start Inkscape to see if the startup time gets reduced.
About your second point: there is already a bug for a splash screen [2]. You may want to take the time to comment about it and draft a blueprint that explains in detail what information should be displayed and how. (Use the "Blueprint" section above).
Regards.
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