Package: f-spot Version: 0.2.1-1.1 Severity: normal The F-Spot Import function works fine on a small photo collection, but when run on a large (> 200 000 pictures) collection, it doesn't perform very well. Selecting the external USB drive that holds the photo collection blocks the Import interface for several minutes, after which the progress bar starts moving at approximately 1000 images/minute.
I imagine that this is because F-Spot opens each file, creates a thumbnail for the Import dialog, and perhaps calculates some metadata, but this operation could well be "lazy" and/or run in the background. I don't need to see all those thumbnails at once (or at all, for the most part). Import seems to be I/O bound and I understand that the speed of my disks is what is holding things back, but the operation could be performed without pre-loading all this information. I would like to just import all the photos and start using F-Spot. A background process could start making thumbnails and inserting metadata into the backend database while I'm looking at the images that have already been processed. Placeholders could be used for the images that haven't yet been processed. On access of such a placeholder, the background process could temporarily suspend its batch activity and process the image I'm trying to access. Of course, this amount of photos may be more than the intended maximum of this program, and I should perhaps use something else. However, all of these photos have been shot by me over a period of five years, and I haven't been working as a professional during that time. So it's conceivable that someone might have a collection of hundreds of thousands of images and still be a regular user. -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages f-spot depends on: ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-5 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-cil 0.63.git.20060719-4 CLI binding for D-BUS interprocess ii libexif12 0.6.13-5 library to parse EXIF files ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libgconf2-4 2.16.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgconf2.0-cil 2.8.3-2 CLI binding for GConf 2.12 ii libglade2.0-cil 2.8.3-2 CLI binding for the Glade librarie ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libglib2.0-cil 2.8.3-2 CLI binding for the GLib utility l ii libgnome-keyring0 0.6.0-3 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnome2.0-cil 2.8.3-2 CLI binding for GNOME 2.12 ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.14.2-7 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgphoto2-2 2.2.1-16 gphoto2 digital camera library ii libgphoto2-port0 2.2.1-16 gphoto2 digital camera port librar ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtk2.0-cil 2.8.3-2 CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2 ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liblcms1 1.15-1 Color management library ii libmono-corlib1.0-ci 1.2.2.1-1 Mono core library (1.0) ii libmono-sharpzip0.84 1.2.2.1-1 Mono SharpZipLib library ii libmono-sqlite1.0-ci 1.2.2.1-1 Mono Sqlite library ii libmono-system-data1 1.2.2.1-1 Mono System.Data library ii libmono-system-web1. 1.2.2.1-1 Mono System.Web library ii libmono-system1.0-ci 1.2.2.1-1 Mono System libraries (1.0) ii libmono0 1.2.2.1-1 libraries for the Mono JIT ii libmono1.0-cil 1.2.2.1-1 Mono libraries (1.0) ii liborbit2 1:2.14.3-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii mono-runtime 1.2.2.1-1 Mono runtime Versions of packages f-spot recommends: pn dcraw <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
