[Shotwell] Shotwell very slowly since commit 9373d88426be8c2985bdd048c6e707265cf50dc1

[Eric Gregory]

2011/8/3 Federico "Darkmagister" Pietta <f.pietta at gmail.com>

> On 03/08/2011 12:58, Valentín wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've found that Shotwell has become really slowly (unusable) since commit
> > 9373d88426be8c2985bdd048c6e707265cf50dc1. And also it prints lots of
> errors
> > like those:
> [...]
> > Anyone has this problem?
>
> yes same problem but no error here only toooooo slow to be used ...
>
> >
> > I'm using Linux Mint 10 with Gnome 2.32.0, by the way.
>
> i have debian
>

So the deal with that commit is it fixes a broken feature that re-creates
video thumbnails when the GStreamer "cookie" has changed.  In other words,
if you install a new GStreamer codec, etc. it will force a refresh of your
video thumbnails.  The first time you run with this patch it will have to
generate new thumbnails for all your videos, and this may take a significant
amount of time.

I know it's annoying that Shotwell is sluggish for a while, but it should
speed up once the re-thumbnailing completes.

  - Eric