[KPhotoAlbum] Annotation performance improvments

[Robert Krawitz]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:03:24 +0100, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, 14. Jänner 2020, 01:02:10 CET schrieb Robert Krawitz:
>> I've created a new 'annotation-performance' branch with these
>> improvements.  If everyone agrees that they're safe, I think it would
>> be good to get this into 5.6; it will greatly improve performance of
>> annotation for people with a lot of images and groups.
>
> So far, there's three commits:
> 252bc62b Improve calculation of max text height
> 49a8a47e Improve performance of annotation dialog
> b7f378e6 Speed up computing new selection
>
> The two last ones seem safe on first sight.
> The first one (252bc62b) computes consistently too low numbers, leading to clipped text. Returning grps.length() - 1 instead leads to occasional wasted space, but seems otherwise lead to correct results.

Interesting.  Can you send me a screenshot?
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