Hi Friends,
This might apply to a number of different circumstances, that take a lot of RAM or processor time. And I guess most of it has been documented already -- for example, complex images with a lot of gradients, or a large number of nodes. But at the moment, I'm playing around with Tiled Clones, where I have over 2000 tiny clones. So when I do certain things to all of them at once, like break their link to each other, it can take 3 or 4 minutes.

And I understand that it's just a limitation that Inkscape has for now, and I'm fine with it. But I'm wondering if it might be possible to create some sort of Abort the Process button. I expect I will always be a student of Inkscape, but especially when I'm trying something new, it can be frustrating to click something, and realize a second later that it wasn't what I meant to do, but have to wait 3 or 4 minutes for it to finish....and then another 3 or 4 minutes to Undo it!

So is that something that would be a viable option at all? I know nothing about coding, so don't really have a clue, but just wondering if it could work?

Thanks for any comments

There have been requests in the bug tracker to display a progress bar for processes that take a long time. But when you're working with such a large number of objects, and if your machine is very slow you just have to be very smart about what you do

This problem has affected me too, hitting Ctrl + C to cancel an operation seems to work sometimes but still you have to wait for it... The Abort feature sounds like it's what we need, a developer might shed more light on this though.

Thanks prkos, and sorry for my delay in responding. I was hoping a developer might see this and make a comment, so I was kind of waiting for that. But I do appreciate you input very much. Maybe I'll make a wish list report at Launchpad.
All best