Is there a panic button I can use to stop the last executed command? Sometimes I will see InkScape taking longer than necessary (especially with all the new power under the hood) and I want to try something else, and I don't want to wait for it to finish that which I will undo anyways. C64 used to allow you to hit the space bar or escape key.

I've got cinamin buns with real Nestle's toll-house chocolate morsels drizzled on top, waiting in the oven. Jaso

Sorry no there isn't. This bug is related to your issue. Getting a progress bar is one step to getting a cancel button

Woosh! Thank you for the immediate response!

My MacMini has been screaming all morning. Thank you for the info. InkScape finally had an internal error and is closing down now.

Jaso

I found a panic button! Just go to the menubar at the top of the screen where it says, "X11". Left-click it once, go down til you have quit highlighted and left-click again. It stops everything immediately! Then, if I want to go right back to my last save, I just go to my doc and tell InkScape to forcequit and it will open as soon as the little red dot disappears.

K. Jaso

"Just go to the menubar at the top of the screen where it says, "X11". "

Where do you see that anything says X11, I can't find that anywhere?

dee

IIRC, Jaso is on a Mac... I don't think us windows users have that.

The trace to bitmap window has OK & Stop buttons. When I press Stop, it doesn't. Did I fail to left click my track ball hard enough or...? Oh, never mind. I just retried to verify prior to posting and found it working with .48.1!

Thank you very much!

I think the Windows equivalent would be to right click the InkScape (open application) prompt on the bottom tool bar and select close. I haven't had the opportunity to test that though. Sometimes I even hold the power button forcing the whole laptop/desktop to shut down. Then, I reboot and reload to my last save spot and in most instances can do so before the amount of time it would've taken for waiting (to complete action and undo) on the (time-consuming) executed command.

Jaso

I think the Windows equivalent would be to right click the InkScape (open application) prompt on the bottom tool bar and select close. I haven't had the opportunity to test that though. Sometimes I even hold the power button forcing the whole laptop/desktop to shut down. Then, I reboot and reload to my last save spot and in most instances can do so before the amount of time it would've taken for waiting (to complete action and undo) on the (time-consuming) executed command.

Well, that's just closing the program. And closing it from the taskbar is no different than closing it by clicking the red X button (top right corner). If all you're doing on your computer is Inkscape, I suppose that's an option. But I always have 5 or 6 other things (at least) going at the same time, and it would be too much bother to close them all and open them all again.

Plus, it depends on what's going on at the time (with Inkscape), although I haven't figured out what it depends on . If a tool is just taking a little too much time, closing Inkscape and reopening would work. But if Inkscape is hung up for some other reason, ie - "Not Responding", it can't be closed except by using the Task Manager. And while closing programs that way can sometimes be the only option for a program not responding, I don't think it would be recommended to use it more than necessary (not just to stop a process that's taking too long). Somewhere in the inner workings of Inkscape and Windows, I think there's a limit as to how much work can be "backlogged" before Windows judges it to be "not responding". One of those "gray areas", I suppose

Are you still having the Trace Bitmap traces taking such a long time on that shiny new laptop, with 8 gb RAM??? Or have you moved on to even bigger images?