Re: Fspot hanging (or being slow) while tagging photos

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 18/09/06, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> 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