GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 333595
changing image with scrollwheel doesn't show correct image
Last modified: 2006-09-07 01:32:23 UTC
Please describe the problem: The ability to change the image using the scrollwheel (as introduced in bug #331645) works good on fast disks. But on slow drives (possibly over a slow network too) it can happen that the wrong image is displayed at last, when switching over multiple images at once. Steps to reproduce: 1. Put some images on a slow disk (my digicam over USB1.1 is sufficient here) 2. Open the first image 3. Use the mouse wheel to quickly select let's say the 15th image in the collection Actual results: EOG starts loading the images. The selected image will show up but is replaced by another image from between the 1st and the selected image. It's still selected in the collection though. Expected results: EOG shows the selected image Does this happen every time? Yes, on slow disks. Other information: I think a good solution would be to implement a little delay when selecting images with the mouse wheel, so that only the final selected image is loaded. Currently if you skip many pics at once you have a loading-job for every image you skip. Another possibility would be to acutally cancel the loading-job if the image is changed again.
This can also be triggered using the keyboard instead of the mouse wheel.
*** Bug 334961 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 67041 [details] [review] temporary workaround This patch adds a little timeout after changing the selection in the collection. It's only a temporary workaround until the new job system from eog-ng, which is not affected by this bug, gets merged into the mainline (2.17?).
This seems to work correctly now. I cannot reproduce it with current CVS HEAD. It has apparently been fixed by the fix for bug 340827 (as it appears again after reverting it). But there is now a memory usage problem. When I click through the images one by one it's okay, but when I try to reproduce this bug I get the correct image but the memmory usage has increased noticeably depending on how many images I skipped.
Closing this bug because the mouse wheel won't be used to switch images on thumbnail pane anymore (See bug #331645).