"Document Properties" tab decreases performance and makes inkscape unstable

Summary:

Hey,

first of all thank you for a great application, which helped me create appealing graphics throughout my study! I noticed Inkscape 1.1 crashing quite often and being very slow in the recent weeks. By accident I found out that this only seems to occur when the "Document property" window is open. As soon as I close it everything runs smooth like before and I don't get any crashes. As far as I can see this doesn't occur with any other windows being open (like Objects, Fill and Stroke, Export etc.)

Steps to reproduce:

  • open Inkscape 1.1
  • open a reasonably complex graphic
  • do operations like resizing on an object and observe the performance (has to be a bit more complex than a rectangle, but the effect is noticable on fairly simple objects
  • open the Document Properties tab (ctrl shift D)
  • resize object again and observe decreased performance (resizing not as smooth)

What happened?

  • Performance of many tasks decreases & program becomes in general slower when Document Properties is open
  • Inkscape frequently crashes when Document Properties is open

Version info

Inkscape 1.1 (c68e22c387, 2021-05-23)

    GLib version:     2.68.2
    GTK version:      3.24.29
    glibmm version:   2.66.0
    gtkmm version:    3.24.3
    libxml2 version:  2.9.12
    libxslt version:  1.1.34
    Cairo version:    1.17.4
    Pango version:    1.48.5
    HarfBuzz version: 2.8.1
    Poppler version:  20.12.1

    OS version:       Windows 10 2009