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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon btrask

File opens too long if big folder is present on same level

Open vimmerru opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Put few images to desktop (or any another folder)
  2. Put big folder or smilink to big folder near. For example i have link to documents folder on my desktop (10k+ photos in subtree)
  3. Open one of images in Sequential

Expected result:

  • File opened in few seconds

Actual result:

  • I see waiting cursor for minutes and have to kill Sequential

vimmerru avatar Jan 28 '16 20:01 vimmerru

Yes, this is a known issue. There are two possible solutions:

  1. Make opening large directories faster and less obtrusive
  2. Only open the individual file

I don't know if or when I will have time to work on this, but change 2 shouldn't be that difficult.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

btrask avatar Feb 05 '16 00:02 btrask

Yes, this is very annoying - especially when you want to see an image that is saved in /tmp, or ~/Desktop and you have lots of heavy folders there. Then the app gets frozen for a pretty long time until it processes all the folders - sometimes I had to kill the app, because I didn't want to wait that long.

I would say that, when the app is started:

  • a main thread should open a chosen file immediately
  • a background thread should be started to: -- firstly scan the folder where the file is present and probably another thread to generate previews -- secondly scan subdirectories up to the first levels only w/o preview generation, plus a deeper scanning seems unnecessary til user navigates to a subfolder
  • there should be a spinning wheel /progress indicator/ telling that the scanning is being made with an option to pause the background thread
  • should be possible to close the app w/o waiting for the background thread to complete its task

Just my two cents :)

pskowronek avatar Feb 24 '16 12:02 pskowronek

The issue is such that Sequential isn't useful for me.

Solution 2. that @btrask mentioned is fine.

For something more responsive, the name of the app "Sequential" says what: While the user is viewing the opened file, load the next and previous so either can be displayed immediately when the user moves forwards or back. kis

tom-- avatar Nov 18 '16 20:11 tom--