I can confirm the slow start on Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome Classic Linux kernel 3.0.0-12-generic. Clean install. Inkscape Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 (Jul 11 2011) from repository. Start up takes more than a minute. This is without a image, just a blanc page. Worked fine on 10.10 [edit] I had a problem with my fo...