Re: [gthumb-list] what happened guys? gthumb-3.3.2-4.fc21.x86_64: really slow to load jpegs

[James Patterson <jamespatterson operamail com>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014, at 10:52 AM, Paolo Bacchilega wrote:
> Il 06/11/2014 19:16, James Patterson ha scritto:
> > Just upgraded to Fedora 21 beta. Yes, beta, I know.
> >
> > gthumb is taking ages longer than it did on Fedora 20 to load images.
> > Any idea why?
> >
> > Using an SSD with a Haswell i7 processor, a 5 meg image takes between 1
> > and 2 seconds to load. Previously the delay was not something I noticed.
> > The image shows up blurred then the definition comes in, like in the old
> > days.
> >
> > Is there a secret gconf key to switch renderer, or get precaching
> > enabled, or anything actually because at this speed I will never be able
> > to sort through my photos :)
>
> It's a known problem, the 3.3.2 version is not considered stable and 
> shouldn't be included in any stable distribution as all the 3.3.x 
> series, which is just a preview of the next stable version.
>
> - Paolo

Thanks Paolo, they are going to downgrade it before final.

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