[KDE4] digikam needs 1 minute to start

[Olivier]

Binary package hint: digikam-kde4

On a up to date intrepid, launching digikam .10 beta1 takes a looong time : about 1 minute. launching digikam 9.3 on the same machine took less than 5 seconds.

I have no idea ho to determine the very cause of digikam being that slow. If anyone can give me a hiny on how to proceed, I would be happy to debug that issue.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Does this happen every time you open it? I know the first time you open it it scans for your photo directories.

[Olivier (olivier-lacroix)]

Yes, every time.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

It takes 12 seconds tops on my 2.5 GHZ Celeron with 640 MB RAM.
Could you run digikam from the terminal and attach the output here? Maybe you could watch it and note any particular area that takes a long time to get through?

[Olivier (olivier-lacroix)]

It takes 50sec on my 2Ghz pentium M with 2Go of RAM. What takes time is the "scanning images in individual albums" part

digikam(29641): Root Album Path: "/home/olivier/Images"
digikam(29641): Database Path: "/home/olivier/Images"
digikam(29641): SchemaUpdater update
digikam(29641): Have a database structure version "5"
digikam(29641): makeUpdates 5 to 5
digikam(29641): listFromType
digikam(29641): got listFromType
digikam(29641): Creating new Location "/olivier/Images" uuid "volumeid:?uuid=00d20e42-af99-4a00-af4b-20e34446dcff"
digikam(29641): location for "/home/olivier/Images" is available true
digikam(29641) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend: "Xine"
QColor::setHsv: HSV parameters out of range
Found dcraw version: 8.86
digikam(29641): KDirWatch method = "INotify"
digikam(29641): DigikamView::loadViewState()
digikam(29641): ImagePlugin_Core plugin loaded
digikam(29641): ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin "ImagePlugin_Core"
digikam(29641): ImagePlugin_AdjustCurves plugin loaded
digikam(29641): ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin "ImagePlugin_AdjustCurves"
digikam(29641): ImagePlugin_AdjustLevels plugin loaded
digikam(29641): ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin "ImagePlugin_AdjustLevels"
digikam(29641): ImagePlugin_BlurFX plugin loaded
digikam(29641): ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin "ImagePlugin_BlurFX"
digikam(29641): ImagePlugin_Border plugin loaded
digikam(29641): ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin "ImagePlugin_Border"
digikam(29641): ImagePlugin_ChannelMixer plugin loaded
digikam(29641): ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin "ImagePlugin_ChannelMixer"
digikam(29641): ImagePlugin_Charcoal plugin loaded
digikam(29641): ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin "ImagePlugin_Charcoal"
digikam(29641): ImagePlugin_ColorFX plugin loaded
digikam(29641): ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin "ImagePlugin_ColorFx" ...

[T. Middleton (timtoo)]

It took at least a minute (probably more) to start up on my mom's computer also, every time.

But now that digikam-kde4 is gone from the repository, this bug report is probably obsolete.

[Nathan Handler (nhandler)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. However, since digikam-kde4 is no longer in the repositories, I am closing this bug report. If this bug is still present in the digikam package, please file a bug against that package on Launchpad.