Re: Removing unneeded preferences

From: Marc Maurer (j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 07:56:59 EDT

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    > The following options haven't been covered by Tomas' reply:

    Lemme cover some more:

    > > id_SHOWSPLASH
    > > Branding is nice. Showing a splash as well. Dunno, maybe I'm misguided,
    > > having a GUI for it makes me feel strange, though.

    Well, i love the splash for new users, but I always disable it, since
    Abi starts faster than the time the splash is displayed.

    > > id_UNIXFONTWARNING
    > > Not displaying warnings is evil. Why not remove it?

    As far as I can see, this is a relic from the Abi 1.0.x era. Please
    someone correct me if I'm wrong. AFAIC you can remove this.

    > > id_CHECK_ENABLE_SMOOTH_SCROLLING
    > > Is it CPU expensive?

    No, but when you don't have the render extention, it can be _really_
    slow. 2 weeks back this issue came up on the user mailing list, and
    disabling it solved the slowness problem for some users. So please keep
    this.

    > > id_CHECK_AUTO_LOAD_PLUGINS
    > > Why shouldn't we load plugins?

    Because we have a lot of plugins, and I've seen abi start on debian for
    example in > 5 sec, which is quite insane for abi :)

    But i'm not against removing it. We should have a better system anyway
    (maybe more like gnumeric).

    Marc



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