Bug 338730

Summary: Image menu sometimes becomes disabled while downloading
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: DrSlony <bugs>
Component: Import-MainViewAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: bugs, caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.9.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.1.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Screencast of problem in 4.2.0

Description DrSlony 2014-09-01 13:15:49 UTC
I have 1192 photos on my SD card. When I open the Import window it immediately fills up with thumbnail placeholders while the thumbs are being generated. If I click on the "Image" menu the items are active, I can press them. So far so good. If you are following the steps to reproduce, close the Import window.

Open the Import window again ("Import > Card Readers > SD/MMC Card Reader etc"). Now as soon as the thumbnail placeholders appear, scroll down! Now when I click on the Image menu, for a second the items are clickable, but then they become disabled. They remain disabled until some thumbs are generated, but I couldn't figure out which ones.

I have attached a screencast of the problem, it is standard VP8 and so should play in any modern browser (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Chromium) or mpv/mplayer/vlc etc.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 DrSlony 2014-09-01 13:16:34 UTC
Created attachment 88522 [details]
Screencast of problem in 4.2.0
Comment 2 DrSlony 2015-04-13 19:25:13 UTC
Still in 4.9.0.
Comment 3 Maik Qualmann 2015-04-18 19:26:44 UTC
The problem is not reproducible at the moment with me. Is the problem with a source other than card reader reproducible?

Maik
Comment 4 DrSlony 2015-04-19 17:15:49 UTC
I don't have other sources to test on.
Comment 5 Maik Qualmann 2015-08-16 18:59:11 UTC
digiKam 4.12.0 is out.

https://www.digikam.org/node/741

Problem still reproducible ?

Maik
Comment 6 DrSlony 2015-08-25 17:43:00 UTC
Please don't feel that I'm ignoring you, I just haven't had enough photos on the SD card yet to give a reliable answer...
Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2016-07-04 20:11:13 UTC
This file still valid using digiKam 5.0.0 ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 8 DrSlony 2016-07-08 19:41:18 UTC
Cannot reproduce in 5.0.0 (92997d9c6c589e044ab77c3ca1e726627ae2e0a3).
Comment 9 DrSlony 2016-07-09 21:34:28 UTC
I was wrong.

Just imported a new batch of photos, about 250 on an SD card. 
Clicked Import > Card readers > SD
Scrolled down straight away.
The Item menu became disabled until the off-screen thumbnails loaded. Luckily it didn't take very long, loading of thumbs is faster, but I still see no reason for it to be disabled, it is still wasted time.
Comment 10 caulier.gilles 2016-11-25 06:53:23 UTC
This problem still reproducible using last DK 5.4.0 bundle ?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWlRJenM

Gilles Caulier
Comment 11 caulier.gilles 2020-08-02 14:46:43 UTC
digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published:

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/

We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version.

Best regards

Gilles Caulier