[Digikam-users] when does digiKam terminate?

[Pedro Antonio Neves]

Hi:

I'm having the same problem (Debian Unstable). I'm also wondering why...


Pedro

On 21-01-2010 13:57, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sometimes I see digikam still running long time after I closed it. There is no
> message about it, no sign, no nothing, just that my computer is slow and I see
> the digikam process is running...
>
> Today I first realized this, because I closed digiKam, then startet it again
> 10 minutes later and it was hell slow. I looked in top - and saw two digikam
> processes...
>
> I gues it happens when digiKam rebuild the thumbnails and I close the app
> before it endet. Like today: I retouched many photos in gimp, then opened
> digikam. It started to build the new thumbs. But I didn't want it to do that
> right now, so I closed digikam and wanted to do something else. But digikam
> still uses up to 78% of my system power.
>
> How comes?
>
> How, except of looking with top, do I know when digiKam has really terminated?
> Would it be bad if I shut down the computer, while digikam is still working
> "secretly"?
>
> Let me know about the secret jobs, that digikam does, after I colse the app...
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel