Bug 507153

Summary: Settings menu opens slowly
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: HubMiner <cal030>
Component: Setup-ColorManagementAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: minor CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 8.6.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
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Description HubMiner 2025-07-17 12:01:14 UTC
"Configure menu" opens slowly.
The issue exists in 8.6 8.7

STEPS:
* Clicked: Setting - Configure Digikam:
* GUI is frozen for 15-20 seconds.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2025-07-17 12:08:01 UTC
Do you have Color Management enabled ? Configure dialog scan all paths where ICC profiles can be presents.
Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2025-07-17 14:02:37 UTC
Here, on a normal, relatively modern Windows machine, it takes 2 seconds. A lot of stuff is loaded from the database in the background: filters, MIME types, etc. As Gilles already mentioned, the ICC profiles. I've always considered opening the setup to be a small indicator of the machine's performance.

For example, we load the ExifTool filter list in a thread, because this would actually take many seconds if the tab is active.

Maik
Comment 3 Maik Qualmann 2025-07-17 14:45:47 UTC
My old Aspire 5741G laptop, probably 12-14 years old, takes about 6 seconds to load the setup window. However, the laptop now uses an SSD; otherwise, Windows 10 would be unusable.

Maik