I'm also encountering this problem; it takes eog almost two minutes to open a single image in a directory that contains 18739 images. All of the images are small: about 6KB each. I have eog's "Image Collection" feature turned off. I repeated mihai007's test:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/oneimage$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/oneimage$ ls | wc -l 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/oneimage$ time eog 999536_sk_md.jpg real 0m10.144s user 0m0.204s sys 0m0.024s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/oneimage$ cd ../thumbs/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/thumbs$ ls | wc -l 18739 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/thumbs$ time eog 999536_sk_md.jpg real 1m54.746s user 1m43.062s sys 0m1.464s -- slow Eye of GNOME start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78710 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs