Removing all tracks from a playlist is very slow when the playlist is large

[Mike.lifeguard]

Binary package hint: exaile

When you have a playlist with many songs (your whole library, perhaps), the context menu doesn't have 'clear all' (or whatever), since anywhere you click in the playlist area is a context menu for /that song/ instead of for the playlist. That's bad, a per-song context menu should have that option too - there isn't any 'background' to click on when the area is full of songs. So, you CTRL+A and select 'remove' from the context menu. The application appears to freeze for over a minute while the operation is processed. I don't know if a 'clear all' operation would be more efficient or not. If so, check whether all songs are selected and use the more efficient operation if so. In any event, the efficiency of large remove operations should be improved (if you select all but one, it should still be fast).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: exaile 0.3.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 8b15f4fca5292e90a3327d5e528e925e
CheckboxSystem: 988b7c9be54a1e2525cae7d97805a134
Date: Sat Aug 7 04:04:17 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: exaile