Version: 0.9.0-rc1 (using KDE 3.5.5, Kubuntu (dapper) 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu1~dapper2) Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.15-27-686 It would be nice to use multiple CPUs (if available) for rebuilding thumbnails. Maybe allowing the user to specify how many threads he wants for rebuilding?
Paul, Thumbnails are generated by a separate process using KIO-slave. Gilles
I rebuilded thumbnails on a 2xdual-core CPU PC, and it's true that only one processor is used at the same time. I can only see one kio_digikamthumbnail process (not multi-threaded) to do the job. So, it doesn't use multiple processors... But maybe kio-slave can't handle multi-threaded jobs ?
The KIO slave dedicated to generate thumbnails is now replaced by a multi-threaded interface since 5.0.0.