I had a same issue. Bug started to show after I enabled View -> Image collection. I found this comment http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572013#c4 and disabled Assistive Technologies. Log out and log in and everything was fine.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #572013 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572013 -- eog - Eye of gnome takes too long to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
