I think the reporter is saying that zooming into images in general is slower in 0.9 than in 0.8. Someone already filed a ticket upstream saying he thought JPEG loading had slowed down, so let's consider this another symptom of that:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3536 ** Bug watch added: trac.yorba.org/ #3536 http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3536 ** Also affects: shotwell via http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3536 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775512 Title: Shotwell zooms image slow and lag -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
