Hi all
I posted about this around a year ago - but haven't been following the list
too much lately - I did a few quick searches, but haven't seen if a lot of
progress has been made in this area.
I have a few large collections of images - one of my tags hits almost 8000
images. When I search on this tag and scroll through the thumbnails, some
thumbnails will show up instantly - but the majority of them will start out
as a grey box and fill in progressively - a 10x7 thumbnail grid takes about
10 seconds to fill in. This means that if I'm scanning through the
collection looking for an image to use, it is *very* slow... It seems
that these thumbnails aren't being cached anywhere - if I restart darktable
it seems to have to regenerate the thumbnails again.
I recently installed digikam, since I need something to manage my video
files, and I found that it handles this better - the initial display of the
thumbnails is about as fast as darktable (maybe slightly slower) - but the
thumbnails are saved - so after letting it work on my collection for a
while, I can scroll through 100's of images and see the thumbnails appear
as fast as I can scroll through the list...
In 10s I could easily scan through about 500 thumbnails in digikam - it
took more than 30s to do the same in darktable. I've put videos of the two
up at :
http://www.synergisticimages.ca/Other/Darktable-Vs-Digikam/38033945_Jbmj5r#!i=3140923506&k=28N4HWW
- both were operating off the same set of images off the same disk -
although each package ordered the images differently so it wasn't showing
the exact same set of files.
Overall I prefer darktable a lot --- but when it comes to looking for
images to use in my art, I might have to go back to digikam for now...
Any ideas on config changes to improve this?
Any plans for improvement in this area?
--
Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist
http://www.synergisticimages.ca
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