[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/7/7 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> Hmm Gilles I don't have a progress bar when I disable the splashscreen.
> Am I misunderstanding you here?
> But it is not faster or slower, now that the splash is disabled.

Here i have progress dialog, if scan at startup is enable.

In theory, this must be the same time, but mechanisms in code to post
progress is a little bit different.

Gilles

>
> Andi
>
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:55:42 Andi Clemens wrote:
>> Hmm there is something different then the splashcreen? Never seen that!
>> ;-)
>> Ok I will check. But again for me startup time is quite normal, I don't
>> think 7 seconds is too much for so many images (and remember, all libs need
>> to be loaded on first run, too).
>> But over 1 minute and more is strange and has been reported a lot for
>> reiserFS partitions.
>>
>> I will create a reiserFS partition later on and test it.
>>
>> Andi
>>
>> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:48:22 Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> > Andi,
>> >
>> > just a stupid question : do you run splashscreen at startup or
>> > progress dialog ? Can you switch to check the difference ?
>> >
>> > Gilles Caulier
>> >
>> > 2009/7/7 Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>:
>> > > On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Andi Clemens wrote:
>> > >> Hmm seems to be a reiserFS problem, since every one reporting this is
>> > >> using reiserFS, also the older reports are talking about reiser.
>> > >
>> > > Takes me 1:20  on an EXT3 disk running XFCE  and Digikam  0.10.0
>> > >
>> > > One problem I have is that all of my pictures are in two albums, but
>> > > they are the same album.   In otherwords, two albums pointing to the
>> > > same directory. So it may be doing twice the work when it wouldn't have
>> > > to.
>> > >
>> > > I haven't yet figured out a way to get rid of the duplicate since
>> > > eliminating one album would delete all of the pictures in it!!   Don't
>> > > know why Digikam was designed to operate that way.  You should be able
>> > > to remove an album from Digikam  without having to delete anything.
>> > >
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