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slow Eye of GNOME start

Bug #78710 reported by mihai.ile on 2007-01-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #193010: slow Eye of GNOME start. Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Eye of GNOME	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	eog (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: eog

I consider this a bug or lack of an feature.
The problem is that Eye of GNOME 2.14.3 (i have this version but it applies on other versions also) has this feature named "Image Collection" (View->Image Colection or press F9).

This feature by default is not selected in ubuntu and i think that is normal, I don't use it.
But the problem is that even if I do not use this feature, every time I want to see an image
by double click on it in nautilus, i have to wait until this features scans all folder for images and does whaterver, and only after that i can see the opened image.
I sugest you go to nautilus, in a folder that has more than 200 photos (example: ~/.gnome2/banshee/covers or ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/covers/ or even woese: ~/.thumbnails/normal/ ) and open one small image with eog and see the time it takes to open the image.
This is a great problem when I want to see some photos in a folder and i always do double click then close.
This delay should created from Image Collection feature should happen only when I activate it.

Pleas don't tell me to use other programs or use the Image Collection feature without the need of nautilus or use gThumb or whatever because I hope you can realize that it is ridiculous to wait like 5seconds with cpu on full load to open an 12.4kb (172x72) png image in a folder like that.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-01-18:

Thanks for your bug report. I just tried it with Feisty and confirmed with ~/.thumbnails/normal

Somebody of the taem should forward it upstream.

Changed in eog:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-05-25:

is that still happening with the new version in gutsy?

Changed in eog:
status:	Confirmed → Needs Info

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-06-28:

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

Changed in eog:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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mihai.ile (mihai.ile) wrote on 2007-11-20:

I had some time and made another test, this time in Gusty.
I repeated the test several times, so the user and sys time are almost constant, no big change between the several tryes.
Here you have in one folder only one file, a png file, and in the other folder more that 2000 thumbnails.
The real time of course it does not matter, because it has to do with how long I keep the window open.

mihai007@mihai007-laptop:~/Desktop/eog test$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l

mihai007@mihai007-laptop:~/Desktop/eog test$ ls *.png | wc -l
1
mihai007@mihai007-laptop:~/Desktop/eog test$ time eog 0a3fbbafbe0cf0204ed48a54c8766d64.png

real 0m10.744s
user 0m0.252s
sys 0m0.048s
mihai007@mihai007-laptop:~/Desktop/eog test$ cd /home/mihai007/.thumbnails/normal/
mihai007@mihai007-laptop:~/.thumbnails/normal$ ls *.png | wc -l
2298
mihai007@mihai007-laptop:~/.thumbnails/normal$ time eog 0a3fbbafbe0cf0204ed48a54c8766d64.png

real 0m13.799s
user 0m1.756s
sys 0m0.080s
mihai007@mihai007-laptop:~/.thumbnails/normal$

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mihai.ile (mihai.ile) wrote on 2007-11-20:

Forgot to add the conclusion that is...
well yes it's still happening, and the difference in user time is quite big, from 0.25 when only one image file in folder to seconds to 1.75 seconds when more than 2000 files in folder.

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Christopher Straut (christopher-straut) wrote on 2008-02-18:

I'm also encountering this problem; it takes eog almost two minutes to open a single image in a directory that contains 18739 images. All of the images are small: about 6KB each. I have eog's "Image Collection" feature turned off. I repeated mihai007's test:

myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/oneimage$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/oneimage$ ls | wc -l
1
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/oneimage$ time eog 999536_sk_md.jpg

real 0m10.144s
user 0m0.204s
sys 0m0.024s
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/oneimage$ cd ../thumbs/
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/thumbs$ ls | wc -l
18739
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/thumbs$ time eog 999536_sk_md.jpg

real 1m54.746s
user 1m43.062s
sys 0m1.464s

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-02-18:

Please submit a new bug report.

Changed in eog:
status:	New → Invalid

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mihai.ile (mihai.ile) wrote on 2008-02-18:

Why this bug turned invalid?
This bug is still in Gusty and right now it tooked 2min to open a image in my .thumbnails/normal folder.
I don't gett it, why is it invalid?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-02-18:

It was closed as invalid in Jun 2007, but it seems that the upstream task wasn't closed and I've closed it now. There's a new report at bug 193010, so let's track that one, thanks in advance.