Re: [gthumb-list] gthumb feedback

[Jef Driesen <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

On 24/02/10 12:55, Jef Driesen wrote:
> I really like the new gthumb. And I have a couple of suggestions to
> improve it even further.

I'm experiencing a couple of problems with the latest gthumb (compiled 
from git master):

1. There appears to be a huge memory leak somewhere in the slideshow 
code. Every time I start a slideshow, memory usage increases and only 
drops again when the application exits. The memory also increases with 
the number of images viewed. A slideshow with many images nearly takes 
my system down by using all available memory.

2. There appears to be some some incompatibility with the older gthumb 
2.10.11 (as shipped by ubuntu 10.4). When trying to browse a folder that 
I have previously visited with a more recent gthumb version, the old 
version freezes with the cpu at 100%. I suspect this is due to the 
different comment file format.

3. When leaving fullscreen mode, I can see lots of window resizing and 
flicker. No idea what causes this.

There are also a couple of things I'm still missing from the older gthumb:

 * The web album exporter.

 * The ability to assign hotkeys to the tools. For example I have a 
script that moves images to a subdirectory, which I use while I'm 
viewing a series of image to select a subset of images for later 
processing. Having to click though the menus makes this a lot less 
useful for me.

 * The copy/move dialog.