[KPhotoAlbum] Import crash

[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

On Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2017 21:59:56 CEST Robert Krawitz wrote:
> >> One of the problems is with displaying the images page.
> >> createImagesPage() is fast enough, but when it Qt then goes to display
> >> it, it's deathly slow if there are a lot of images (presumably there's
> >> some inefficiency in Qt with creating a dialog with thousands of
> >> items in it -- or the way KPA is doing it, since file browsers have to
> >> be able to display lots of items).  Even if I have it not try to
> >> display a pixmap and/or label, it's very slow.
[...]
> I suspect QLayout isn't really designed for that many items; it's very
> flexible and tries hard to achieve the best layout for the widgets you
> put into it.  If I run it under gdb, and break into it, it looks like
> it's spending a huge amount of time doing stuff like this (all inside
> that ImportExport::ImportDialog::exec() call):
[...]
> For that matter, a lot of times when I'm doing an import I'm really
> not interested in selecting which files I want to import; just grab
> the whole thing and go.

I've not recently looked at that part of the import process, but I would 
imagine that asking the user whether to display that dialog shouldn't be hard 
to do...

  Johannes