[Digikam-devel] [Bug 132047] Faster display of images and/or prefetch wished for

[Marcel Wiesweg]

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------- Additional Comments From marcel.wiesweg gmx de  2006-08-08 16:29 -------
Your suggestions for fast rendering are important optimisations. For a viewer. Please note that digikam currently has no viewer, only an image editor. (Showfoto is supposed to be a viewer, but in its heart it is an editor)

As the image editor is an editor, it needs the full pixels at any time. Btw, only for JPEGs it is possible to save time loading in a lower resolution.
We can preload the next image, that costs RAM (image size), but no problem.
Rendering cannot be done in a background thread, it must be done in a foreground thread (it is X server communication in the end).

That does not mean we cannot have a dedicated speed-optimized viewer for image _watching_, fully integrated with all sidebar stuff of course, allowing nice slideshows, easily opening the IE if editing is needed.