[sugar] python imports and performance (was Re: #5549 ...)

[Erik Garrison]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 12:35:56PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> p.s. I suspect part of the larger startup issue may be that we are
> rendering SVGs on demand for the toolbar, etc.  We can either defer
> that rendering, allowing us to open the activity quickly and then
> later fill in the icons (as the gnome panel does), or maintain a
> persistent cache of SVG renderings.

If this is the case I will work on it immediately.  Load-time rendered
SVGs should be cached.