Public bug reported:
Affects: eog (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
This bug exists when calling eog via nautilus and via the command line.
To reproduce:
Browse to a directory in nautilus that contains 3 or more image files.
Right-click on 1 and select open with "Image Viewer". Every file in the
directory is cached before eog opens. But if you select 2 or more, then only
the selected images are cached.
Open a terminal. For simplicity, cd to a directory containing 3 or more
image files. The command "eog image.jpg" will result in caching every
image in the directory. Using wildcards results in caching every image
as well--if the wildcards match only a single filename. If the wildcard
expression matches only some of the filenames, then only the matched
files are cached.
In short, eog refuses to cache only 1 image. If only 1 image is
selected, it ignores the user's selection and caches every single image.
This results in extremely slow performance and at worst, a significant
wast of resources because every single image is preloaded by eog.
This behavior exists in both the breezy and dapper packages.
Two suggestions as a result of this behavior:
1) Ensure eog only opens a single image when a single file is selected.
(directly fixes this bug)
2) Improve performance by revising the caching method for collections to
preloading a smaller number of files.
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eog caches too many images
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37429
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