Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.5.95) OS: Linux Thumbnail generation is sluggish compared to 4.5.x. Applies to all pictre file types, tested with every picture folder, largest teste having 802 pictures (511,4MB) of varying sizes and types. Made sure disk activity was at minimum and strigi was turned off just to make sure. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Open a picture folder. Press preview to start generating thumbnails. Actual Results: Thumbnail generation happens but is noticeably slower than it was KDE 4.5 Expected Results: Generate thumbnails faster than KDE 4.5 OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.37-CHAKRA Compiler: gcc nvidia propiertary: 260.19.29 KWin effects on, xrender.
Thanks for the report. Nothing has been changed in 4.6 in comparison to 4.5 in this scope AFAIK. Did you use a new user account for testing? In this case the root-cause might be that the cache of the thumbnails must be created first. Does the situation improve if you visit the folder a second time after the thumbs have been created?
I'm sorry, I wasn't precise enough. The problem applies to both generating new thumbnails and viewing a picture folder after thumbnails have been generated. - Generating thumbnails appears to be slower than in KDE 4.5. - Viewing cached thumbnails in KDE 4.5 was instantenous, it takes a while in KDE 4.6. Easily noticeable in large folders: open large picture folder, start scrolling and it takes a while before thumbnails appear. No changes in hardware between two versions.
Hm, I cannot reproduce this issue: I've opened a 4.5 version of Dolphin and a 4.6 version in parallel and opened the same folder. I removed the thumbnail-cache of both versions and the initial generation in 4.6 was even slightly faster. Showing the cached version was equally fast. Is it possible that you're 4.6 version was compiled in the debug-mode?
Any news on this? I never used Dolphin 4.5.x, so I cannot tell whether there's still some old regression that was never fixed or if that was a problem on the side of the reporter.
No response -> closing. Please reopen the bug report if you still experience this behavior with newer versions of Dolphin.