<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/28, Yuval Levy <<a href="mailto:digikam08@sfina.com">digikam08@sfina.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Arnd Baecker wrote:<br>> For just viewing you could consider using showfoto,<br>> which is part of the digikam package.<br><br>I had to do a sudo apt-get install showfoto. I looked at showfoto, as<br>well as at gThumb reccomended by Yan Seiner (thanks!) gqview and again<br>
at digiKam.<br><br>> Another programm which is well suited for a fast display of<br>> images is gqview.<br><br>and the winner is...<br><br>... it would be quite arrogant to declare a winner after such a short<br>time for testing. moreover, there are as many different workflows as<br>
there are users, so what works for me might not work for you.<br><br>I have a few observations though.<br><br>All above tools can load the RAW images of my Canon 350D, both from a<br>local copy as well as from the network drive. A testimonial to the<br>
maturity of some of the code.<br><br>However there is a big variation in speed, and speed, i.e. the time I<br>have to wait until the display is updated, is important to me. In<br>testing it I made sure caches are empty.<br>
<br>gqview was the fastest. its user interface is IMHO rough and unpleasant<br>to use, but I am not sure that a list dedicated to digiKam is the right<br>place to suggest improvements to qgview.<br><br>digiKam was significantly slower than gqview. Unfortunately too slow for<br>
me. So my question is: why is it so slow (after all, most tools use<br>dcraw for RAW decoding)? and: can I do something to help change that?</blockquote><div><br>Because decode in 8 bits color depth or in 16 bits color depth a RAW files is not the same <br>
<br>gqview do not support 16 bits color depth and i suspect than it use an half decoding version of RAW file to speed up loading. This is fine for viewing, and only viewing, but not to edit.<br> </div>digiKam use also this wait to display faster RAW picture on Light Table.<br>
</div><br>Gilles Caulier<br>