The problem persists in Ubuntu 12.04. If the problem cannot be fixed, I think the desktop team should think about shipping a faster image viewer.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193010 Title: slow Eye of GNOME start Status in Eye of GNOME: Confirmed Status in “eog” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: eog This is related to bug 78710 but I was asked to submit it as a new bug report. 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. Some information that may be helpful: 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/193010/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
