greets, folks . . .
for more than a decade i've gone happily along, making pictures for a living, sorting them with a gnome application called gthumb (which meshes nicely with the gimp) and being generally happy. then the gnome people did what gnome people do: they improved gthumb to the point where it's utterly useless. they removed menus and scrollbars and committed other atrocities.
so i thought i'd bite the bullet and try digikam, which is in many respects too much, just too much. it tries to do things that i do not want done. it insists on running a full inventory of all my pictures all the time -- gthumb was good about not doing this until it was asked to -- and generally behaves as if i'm a 14-year-old who wants to keep track of his million selfies. grrr.
but i can live with that and i feel confident that after spending some time with it i can turn off much of the stuff i don't like and make it into something potentially more useful than gthumb was when it was useful, about one major version ago. but there's a problem: when i use digikam-trinity (0.9.6) within a few minutes i can hear my computer's fans screaming and when i run top i see that it's consuming more than 100 percent.
any ideas how i can fix this or at least troubleshoot it?
tia.
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On 2019/06/20 06:05 AM, dep wrote:
greets, folks . . .
for more than a decade i've gone happily along, making pictures for a living, sorting them with a gnome application called gthumb (which meshes nicely with the gimp) and being generally happy. then the gnome people did what gnome people do: they improved gthumb to the point where it's utterly useless. they removed menus and scrollbars and committed other atrocities.
so i thought i'd bite the bullet and try digikam, which is in many respects too much, just too much. it tries to do things that i do not want done. it insists on running a full inventory of all my pictures all the time -- gthumb was good about not doing this until it was asked to -- and generally behaves as if i'm a 14-year-old who wants to keep track of his million selfies. grrr.
but i can live with that and i feel confident that after spending some time with it i can turn off much of the stuff i don't like and make it into something potentially more useful than gthumb was when it was useful, about one major version ago. but there's a problem: when i use digikam-trinity (0.9.6) within a few minutes i can hear my computer's fans screaming and when i run top i see that it's consuming more than 100 percent.
any ideas how i can fix this or at least troubleshoot it?
tia.
Try running it in gdb and break execution when you see the problem. Grab backtrace and let us know. This would be a start :-)
Cheers Michele
On 2019-06-19 16:05:41 dep wrote:
greets, folks . . .
for more than a decade i've gone happily along, making pictures for a living, sorting them with a gnome application called gthumb (which meshes nicely with the gimp) and being generally happy. then the gnome people did what gnome people do: they improved gthumb to the point where it's utterly useless. they removed menus and scrollbars and committed other atrocities.
so i thought i'd bite the bullet and try digikam, which is in many respects too much, just too much. it tries to do things that i do not want done. it insists on running a full inventory of all my pictures all the time -- gthumb was good about not doing this until it was asked to -- and generally behaves as if i'm a 14-year-old who wants to keep track of his million selfies. grrr.
but i can live with that and i feel confident that after spending some time with it i can turn off much of the stuff i don't like and make it into something potentially more useful than gthumb was when it was useful, about one major version ago. but there's a problem: when i use digikam-trinity (0.9.6) within a few minutes i can hear my computer's fans screaming and when i run top i see that it's consuming more than 100 percent.
any ideas how i can fix this or at least troubleshoot it?
tia.
This isn't a fix for the problem itself, but Linux Format Magazine #LXF250 reviewed a product called Ananicy, which provides a friendly way to monitor and adjust the nicenesses of the processes running on a machine. I found it helpful. (http://bit.ly.lxf250ananicy)
Leslie
said J Leslie Turriff: | On 2019-06-19 16:05:41 dep wrote: | > greets, folks . . . | > | > for more than a decade i've gone happily along, making pictures for a | > living, sorting them with a gnome application called gthumb (which | > meshes nicely with the gimp) and being generally happy. then the gnome | > people did what gnome people do: they improved gthumb to the point | > where it's utterly useless. they removed menus and scrollbars and | > committed other atrocities. | > | > so i thought i'd bite the bullet and try digikam, which is in many | > respects too much, just too much. it tries to do things that i do not | > want done. it insists on running a full inventory of all my pictures | > all the time -- gthumb was good about not doing this until it was | > asked to -- and generally behaves as if i'm a 14-year-old who wants to | > keep track of his million selfies. grrr. | > | > but i can live with that and i feel confident that after spending some | > time with it i can turn off much of the stuff i don't like and make it | > into something potentially more useful than gthumb was when it was | > useful, about one major version ago. but there's a problem: when i use | > digikam-trinity (0.9.6) within a few minutes i can hear my computer's | > fans screaming and when i run top i see that it's consuming more than | > 100 percent. | > | > any ideas how i can fix this or at least troubleshoot it? | > | > tia. | | This isn't a fix for the problem itself, but Linux Format Magazine | #LXF250 reviewed a product called Ananicy, which provides a friendly way | to monitor and adjust the nicenesses of the processes running on a | machine. I found it helpful. (http://bit.ly.lxf250ananicy)
alas, i get a "server not found" at that url. do you have a full url?
as to the initial problem, i can tell (from having watched top) that as soon as digikam-trinity is asked to do anything at all -- display a picture, open an external program -- it jumps to 100 percent or above, unless the external application is ShowFoto, in which case *each* of them is at 100 percent.
On Thursday 20 June 2019 17.39:01 dep wrote:
as to the initial problem, i can tell (from having watched top) that as soon as digikam-trinity is asked to do anything at all -- display a picture, open an external program -- it jumps to 100 percent or above, unless the external application is ShowFoto, in which case *each* of them is at 100 percent.
IMHO there must be some other problem. I have been running digiKam on all my photos (several hundred GB by now) and I see no such behaviour (this on two different motherboards with different processors).
Thierry
On Thursday 20 June 2019 11:05:12 am Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Thursday 20 June 2019 17.39:01 dep wrote:
as to the initial problem, i can tell (from having watched top) that as soon as digikam-trinity is asked to do anything at all -- display a picture, open an external program -- it jumps to 100 percent or above, unless the external application is ShowFoto, in which case *each* of them is at 100 percent.
IMHO there must be some other problem. I have been running digiKam on all my photos (several hundred GB by now) and I see no such behaviour (this on two different motherboards with different processors).
Appologies if this is useless as I know nothing about gthumb or digikam, but based upon the name gthumb (eg thumbs...) have you looked at an app called Geeqie? I've used it for years and it does have a right click open in gimp.
michael@local [~]# apt show geeqie Package: geeqie Priority: optional Section: universe/graphics Installed-Size: 1,355 kB Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Original-Maintainer: Michal Čihař nijel@debian.org Version: 1:1.1-8 Replaces: gqview Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libexiv2-12, libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblcms1 (>= 1.15-1), liblircclient0, libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), geeqie-common (= 1:1.1-8) Recommends: exiftran, exiv2, ufraw-batch, zenity, imagemagick, librsvg2-common Suggests: gimp, xpaint, geeqie-dbg, libjpeg-progs, ufraw Breaks: gqview (<< 1:1.0~beta2-3) Download-Size: 518 kB Homepage: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages Description: image viewer using GTK+ Geeqie is a browser for graphics files offering single click viewing of your graphics files. It includes thumbnail view, zoom, filtering features and external editor support.
said Michael:
| Appologies if this is useless as I know nothing about gthumb or digikam, | but based upon the name gthumb (eg thumbs...) have you looked at an app | called Geeqie? I've used it for years and it does have a right click | open in gimp.
Having spent pretty much all day messing around with various applications -- Gwenview, Shotwell, and of course gThumb and digikam -- your recommendation comes as close as I can find to being useful for my purposes (though I have come configuring and such to do before I'm sure). gThumb was a great program, but after about 3.3.1 the gnomaniacs improved it to and beyond uselessness.
When I get back from an assignment I dump the pictures into directories on the hard drive, then use a program (previously gThumb) to take a quick look, look at a larger version of the picture(s) I think I want, open it/them in the GIMP for a touchup, and ship 'em. I don't need "albums" or cutesy-named collections or anything beyond what I described a sentence ago. You'd think this would be easy to find. It's not, though Geeqie may be made to do these things.
Thanks!
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