[Gtkradiant] First time running 1.6, takes over a minute/fails to start up.

[Obsidian]

Forgive the bump, but Misantropia just joined the mailing list and
wants a transcript to reply to.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Obsidian <meridanox at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoops... forgot the link, his profile says he still visits frequently
> so maybe you can PM him:
>
> http://forums.urbanterror.info/topic/19651-zeroradiant-featuresbug-fixes/
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Obsidian <meridanox at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would if I could, but am not a programmer. I've dropped the idea to
>> people in the community, but no serious takers.
>>
>> Keep it up, lots of people appreciate the work you're putting into
>> this, even if it makes you feel a bit dirty sometimes. ;)
>>
>> rfx (aka mfn) did some work on that fork of Radiant a little while
>> ago. He stopped work on it a while ago, but perhaps he might be
>> prodded into contributing in small ways?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Nerius Landys <nlandys at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've been getting numerous reports (and have experienced it myself
>>>> first hand) of ZeroRadiant hanging or taking over a minute to start up
>>>> for the first time. Users are faced with the command-line window for a
>>>> period of time before the rest of the interface loads up. The problem
>>>> does not repeat itself with subsequent start-ups, it pauses for the
>>>> first time only.
>>>>
>>>> Users are reporting the issue on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows
>>>> 7 on both 32 and 64-bit systems.
>>>>
>>>> I am unsure about the cause for this issue, if it's a bug or if
>>>> ZeroRadiant is just setting up for the first time. If the latter, some
>>>> kind of loading message would be beneficial so the user doesn't think
>>>> the program has hanged.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Latest build as of this morning also has this "long pause" problem, as
>>> reported by someone I know.
>>>
>>> I have already gone off on Windows "tangents" too much.  That is, I've
>>> invested lots of time into fixing Windows-specific problems with
>>> Radiant.  I'm no Windows expert and I'd rather not become one.  [In
>>> fact one of my long term goals is to hack some kernel or driver code
>>> in something like Linux or FreeBSD.]  I usually feel dirty inside
>>> after spending lots of time mucking with Windows issues.  I would
>>> rather focus my time and positive energy on fixing bugs that are
>>> actually in Radiant rather than understanding how the black box
>>> creation of Bill Gates works.  (I will give ol' Bill credit that he
>>> donates a lot of his money to charity - so how about making a donation
>>> to the Free Software Foundation, or maybe the FreeBSD Foundation,
>>> Bill?)
>>>
>>> My point is that I'm strongly opposed to spending much more of my
>>> personal time addressing Windows-specific issues.  The main reason I
>>> have a Windows machine in the first place is to test Radiant on it.  I
>>> do all of my work in Linux.  Are there any other Radiant devs willing
>>> to step up to the plate?  Maybe someone who knows how Windoes works?
>>> I seem to be the only guy doing any sort of maintenance on Radiant at
>>> this point, which is a tad disappointing.  Radiant is a great tool and
>>> is actually quite fun to improve.
>>>
>>> - Rambetter
>>>
>>
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