User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2 Build Identifier: current from git hello i run digikam with strace to see what it does during initialisation 40% of system calls are used to walk through my home directory (which is admittedly huge) but where none of my albums is placed. Guess: it seems to be looking for color profile files as i have declared home as containg my computer icc profile. I never thought that would imply recursivity. I can modify this, but at least a warning should appear in the settings menu for icc profile as this can have a huge impact. Reproducible: Always
Move your color profile to a standard location, such as ~/.local/share/color/icc/ color/icc directories need to be searched recursively. Note that the comprehensive solution should be system-wide color management support where the available profiles are listed by an API and are configured in system settings.
ok i want to add that even if you disable color management in the settings, if unfortunately you have modified the root path for color profile, the directory indicated will be searched recursively for standard color profiles. so disabling color management is not enough to solve the problem. you need to get this path reverted to something more appropriate. and if you disable color management you no longer have access to the two other tabs where the path is specified!