* Laurent Zimmermann <laurent....@gmail.com> [01-05-21 10:39]: > Hi Peter, > > I did not try dt 3.4 because it is not yet available in the > repositories of my distro. > > This is my hardware: > - CompactFlash SanDisk Extreme 60 MB/s > - Lexar USB 3.0 card reader > - StarTech USB 3.0 ExpressCard > - Pentium P6000 @ 1.87 GHz dual core > - 8 GB RAM DDR3 > - SSD drive > It is an ancient VAIO laptop I have upgraded. Not an i7 processor of course. > > I tried to increase (512 MB -> 2048 MB) for the thumbnails cache and > the nimber of threads (1 -> 2) without any noticeable effect on the > thumbnails display in the import dialog. No other setting seemed > appropriate. > > The import dialog in darktable needs ~18 s to display the 133 > thumbnails although Dolphin needs only 2-3 s. So I guess the hardware > is not the most critical point, dont't you? > > Laurent > > Le mar. 5 janv. 2021 à 08:52, Peter Harde > <peter.harde.pri...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Hi Laurent, > > > > did you try dt 3.4.0 ? What hardware are you using? Sounds as if your > > system is slow... There are several settings in preferences -> > > lighttable controlling the creation of thumbnails. Did you try different > > settings ? > > > > Peter > > > > Am 04.01.21 um 15:38 schrieb Laurent Zimmermann: > > > Using darktable 3.2.1 x64 / Q4OS Linux (Debian 10 type). > > > > > > First of all, thanks to the developpers for their work. > > > > > > 1. I recently imported all the pictures (250+) from my memory card to > > > my harddrive. I wanted to import them on my hard disk in several > > > partial imports to get them into several folders having different > > > names. The problem was that at each partial import I had to wait a > > > long time until the full content of my memory card was displayed. Is > > > was a long time because there were many photos and because thumbnails > > > were displayed. > > > I believe things could go much faster if a kind of cache could be > > > used, because viewing the thumbnails was very useful. > > > > > > 2. By the way, I remember I saw once a list of filenames (faster > > > display) instead of the thumbnails, but I am totally unable to > > > remember what I did to view the list instead of the thumbnails. I see > > > no button nor another mean to toggle between filename and thumbnails. > > > > > > 3. In the parameters tab, there is the option "override today's date" > > > (surcharge la date actuelle). I'd like to know what is it intended for > > > and how to use it. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > > darktable developer mailing list > > > to unsubscribe send a mail to > > > darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > darktable developer mailing list > > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
the difference in time required for display between dt and dolphin is probably the display size of the thumbnails and that dolphin has it's own cache, different than dt. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
