"Configure menu" opens slowly. The issue exists in 8.6 8.7 STEPS: * Clicked: Setting - Configure Digikam: * GUI is frozen for 15-20 seconds.
Do you have Color Management enabled ? Configure dialog scan all paths where ICC profiles can be presents.
Here, on a normal, relatively modern Windows machine, it takes 2 seconds. A lot of stuff is loaded from the database in the background: filters, MIME types, etc. As Gilles already mentioned, the ICC profiles. I've always considered opening the setup to be a small indicator of the machine's performance. For example, we load the ExifTool filter list in a thread, because this would actually take many seconds if the tab is active. Maik
My old Aspire 5741G laptop, probably 12-14 years old, takes about 6 seconds to load the setup window. However, the laptop now uses an SSD; otherwise, Windows 10 would be unusable. Maik