Version: 1.8.0 (using KDE 4.6.0) OS: Linux When starting digikam, and the collection has changed considerably, it's currently impossible to stop the collection scan (if it hasn't been turned off at start up). It would be good to have button / url on the splash screen with the simple words, "skip". Reproducible: Didn't try
Pierre, Disabled Splashscreen at startup. Another startup dialog will appear when collection are scanned. This dialog has a cancel button. Marcel, perhaps we can add a small button over splash, or better when user click somewhere on splash, it close it and scan is canceled... Gilles Caulier
I fully agree we should have some sort of progress indicator on the splash screen, possibly with a cancel button. The splash screen goes away very easily, it's enough to click somewhere if you want to continue work in another app while digikam starts, and it's gone, so that should perhaps not be taken as any user input. To fix the underlying issue, there is one thing we can do: The initial startup scan does some important housekeeping work, like checking for removed files or directories, and internal cleanup. This is relatively fast. Things get slow when new files need to be parsed. So it should be possible - at first glance - to quickly do the housekeeping, start digikam, and do a second round of new-file scanning in the background.
Changes as promised in the last lines of my comment have been implemented