Comment 9 for bug 488247

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Diederik van Lierop (mail-diedenrezi) wrote : Re: Inkscape 0.47 is slow starting

Two things slow down Inkscape while it's starting up:
1) it's building a list of fonts: using a font manager to reduce the number of fonts might help
2) it's rendering its own icons: improvements are planned

For more details see this thread:

http://www.listware.net/201007/inkscape-devel/79366-inkscape-devel-slow-to-start.html