[scribus] Opening a scribus file faster

[Peter Linnell]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 11:09:55 -0800
Luya Tshimbalanga <luya at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Hello team,
> 
> I noticed that opening files on latest svn version of Scribus sometime
> take longer than usual. Is there a way to address that issue? Not sure
> if I should file a bug report.
> 
> The test was done on
> 
> Hardware:
> AMD A10-7400P Radeon R6 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),
> Motherboard: ASUS X550ZE v1.0,
> Chipset: AMD Family 15h,
> Memory: 15360MB,
> Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M + 31GB,
> Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R6 1024MB,
> 
> Software:
> OS: Fedora 25, Kernel: 4.9.0-0.rc8.git2.2.fc26.x86_64 (x86_64)
> 20161207, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.2,
> Display Server: Wayland,
> Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4,
> OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.2 Gallium 0.4,
> Vulkan: 1.0.30,
> Compiler: GCC 6.2.1 20160916 + Clang 3.9.0 + LLVM 3.9.0,
> Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
> 

With Wayland being the default in Fedora 25, I would not be surprised
if this is causing the issue.  As Scribus is written in Qt, support for
Wayland is not likely to be the same at the GNOME/GTK libraries.

I wonder if you could compare this on Fedora 25 with a KDE or other DE
without Wayland ?

Thanks,
Peter