On 18/09/06, Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 00:21 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I have a tag LastImport that I add to photos when I import them, and > > remove as I tag them or make other adjustments (time). During a recent > > import of ~600 photos the importer hang. It filled up 1-600 nicely, > > and then hang for 10 minutes. So I killed it with CTRL-ALT-ESC. When > > I reopened F-spot I saw that the pictures were in fact imported, but > > only the first 400 or so pictures were tagged. So I selected the > > remaining photos and clicked Add Tag -> LastImport. I was certain that > > it was hung again, but after about 2 minutes it finished. During that > > time F-spot was unresponsive, and the window stayed with the Add Tags > > menu open. > > > > If it's not hanging, then it certainly is taking a long time to tag > > hundreds of photos, so long that it appears to be hanging. A progress > > bar would be nice. Should I file a wish bug for the progress bar, or > > is this delay uncommon? How long should F-spot take to tag 200 photos? > > 600? I'm on a 1.4 gHz AMD Duron, with 1024MB RAM. Other than F-spot, > > only Firefox was running. I'm on Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE desktop). > > > > We have an Asynch patch in the pipeline which would speed up everything > quite drastically (from the users perspective). > For now, if you tag a lot of photos, and have Write Metainformation to > the Photos enabled, each photo has to be updated on the disk. This takes > some time unfortunately, and there is no feedback at all to the user. > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337724 > > /Bengt >
I didn't see that in Bugzilla. I probably should go read all the bugs at least once to know where everything stands. Thanks. I'm not sure if I'll build that into my everyday F-spot, but I'll test it on the testUser. Dotan _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
