On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 22:37 +0100, Cédric Gémy wrote:

Just put the .abr file in your $HOME/.gimp-2.6/brushes. Relaunch gimp and it might be OK.

Unfortunately, i feel that Gimp is running much slower when such brush set are loaded. It seems to me that gimp loads them all at launch time.

That is correct. But this should only affect memory usage and start-up time. So as long as you have enough RAM, more brushes shouldn't slow GIMP down (except for the increased start-up time).

Is there any caching that would allow to have them available but not loaded full-res until we need them ?

Lazy-loading of brushes and other resource files has been proposed several times, but it was never fully implemented. There's a bug-report about it and we are of course appreciating patches to implement this.

Sven

No as explained by Sven

You may use GURM (a python plugin) to separate brush (pattern gradients) in sets and chose which load

Next Gimp should allow tagging resources considere

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 22:37 +0100, Cedric Gemy wrote:

Just put the .abr file in your $HOME/.gimp-2.6/brushes. Relaunch gimp and it might be OK.

Unfortunately, i feel that Gimp is running much slower when such brush set are loaded. It seems to me that gimp loads them all at launch time.

That is correct. But this should only affect memory usage and start-up time. So as long as you have enough RAM, more brushes shouldn't slow GIMP down (except for the increased start-up time).

Is there any caching that would allow to have them available but not loaded full-res until we need them ?

Lazy-loading of brushes and other resource files has been proposed several times, but it was never fully implemented. There's a bug-report about it and we are of course appreciating patches to implement this.

Sven

No as explained by Sven

You may use GURM (a python plugin) to separate brush (pattern gradients) in sets and chose which load

Next Gimp should allow tagging resources considere

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 22:37 +0100, Cedric Gemy wrote:

Just put the .abr file in your $HOME/.gimp-2.6/brushes. Relaunch gimp and it might be OK.

Unfortunately, i feel that Gimp is running much slower when such brush set are loaded. It seems to me that gimp loads them all at launch time.

That is correct. But this should only affect memory usage and start-up time. So as long as you have enough RAM, more brushes shouldn't slow GIMP down (except for the increased start-up time).

Is there any caching that would allow to have them available but not loaded full-res until we need them ?

Lazy-loading of brushes and other resource files has been proposed several times, but it was never fully implemented. There's a bug-report about it and we are of course appreciating patches to implement this.

Sven

Something else about slow brushes: I noticed delayed reacting of brushes, when they are bigger size. Some brushes didn`t work at all anymore, especially when a pen tablet was used. With mouse it was faster, but still not good. After unchecking "show brush outline" in the "preferences"-"image windows" section the problem was gone.