Bug 338730 - Image menu sometimes becomes disabled while downloading
Summary: Image menu sometimes becomes disabled while downloading
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Import-MainView (show other bugs)
Version: 4.9.0
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Keywords:
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Reported: 2014-09-01 13:15 UTC by DrSlony
Modified: 2022-01-21 03:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 5.1.0

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Screencast of problem in 4.2.0 (1.90 MB, video/webm)
2014-09-01 13:16 UTC, DrSlony 		Details
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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