[Digikam-users] Progress bar doesn't

[Gilles Caulier]

2012/3/5 Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk>:
> Hi Giles,
>
> I was not sure if I should add to that bug or not as I am still using 1.9.0
> and I am not sure if it matches what is talked about in that bug anyway.

1.9.0 is pretty old. in this bug report, we talking about Progress
Manager introduced with 2.6.0-beta1. Implementation have been
completly re-written...

>
> But just to add a couple of data points to this thread:
>
> 1) When I am tagging images, the progress bar works as expected for the
> first group of images only.

This is interresting. Group handling is perhaps not properly
implemented, in 1.x and 2.x. I will reprot this point to Marcel.

>
> 2) I have DK set to write the metadata to the image files.

ok

>
> 3) The progress bar sits at 0% until it has finished writing the metadata to
> the files, at which point it goes away.
>

Ah, it's an HDD data workflow problem.

> 4) My CPU is an Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 at 2.40GHz.
>

in 1.9.0, will still use single CPU for all in digiKam

Only with 2.6.0, we use multicore CPU. This must increase speed issue...

Gilles Caulier