SUMMARY gwenview stalls because it completely scans the /tmp folder which has 1000s of unrelated subfolders STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. I want to view some images , e.g. gwenview /home/myname/pictures/subfolder/*.png 2. gwenview produces a folder overview menu on the left hand side which I do neither need nor want 3. That overview includes the /tmp folder which has 1000s of unrelated subfolders 4. gwenview tries to scan all of them which takes minutes during which time it is practically ununsable OBSERVED RESULT gwenview tries to scan all of them which takes minutes during which time it is practically ununsable EXPECTED RESULT gwenview opens just the files on the command line and does not attempt to scan half of my computer SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: opensuse 15.1 KDE Frameworks 5.55.0 Qt 5.9.7 (built against 5.9.7) The xcb windowing system ADDITIONAL INFORMATION how can I prevent that scanning? Even better how can I make gwenview operate directly on the files that I specify instead of copies in /tmp
I could resolve the main issue (stalling) by opening the "operations" tab instead of "folders", which I had overlooked before. However I still would like to have gwenview operate on the original files and not copies in /tmp. Deleting unused files, for example, is useless in /tmp, and the inability to delete pictures in the original destination makes it much less useful as a picture sorting tool.
Thanks for the report, do the folders in /tmp contain images/videos or are they other files? I've just tried to replicate this issue when starting gwenview 20.08.3 but I am unable to. Can you please test and confirm if this issue is still occurring or if this bug report can be marked as resolved. I'm setting status to "needsinfo" pending your response, please change back to "reported" or "resolved" when you respond, thanks.
Thanks for following this up. In gwenview version 18.12.3 it seems ok. With best greetings, Gerhard