[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/7/7 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> Ok, it really is a little bit slower WITH the splash enabled then without it.
> Approximately 2 seconds... weird.

ok. i have also see a similar delay.

This can be explained by the way to redraw full pixmap of splashscreen
instead only the space where text is displayed.

Gilles

>
> Andi
>
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 20:12:01 Andi Clemens wrote:
>> Oh I have not "scanning" enabled. But I will do so now...
>>
>> Andi
>>
>> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 20:00:21 Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> > 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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