Re: Generation of background "previews" is too slow

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 10 May 2002, Henri Mannerberg wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've noticed that it takes quite a long time to generate previews for
> "Picture Options" in Background Preferences.
> 
> On my P600 it takes up to 10 seconds to generate previews for 1600x1200
> images and up to 5 sec for 1280x1024 images.
> 
> There should be a way to fasten up the process. i.e. the thumbnail
> images could be saved somewhere, now they are being regenerated every
> time you open Background Preferences or change the background image.
> 
> I've filed a bug on this at bugzilla as well (#81327)
> 
> Any thoughts?

I think this is due to gdk-pixbuf being slow at scaling down by large 
amounts. Someone may want to look at copying eel_gdk_pixbuf_scale_down() 
into the control-center. 

Eventually we will have to fix gdk-pixbug though.

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