GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 613723
Grid view is a bit slow
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:47:13 UTC
Steps to observe: 1. Open up banshee with grid view and a large library. Drag the scrollbar thumb rapidly downwards. 2. For comparison, open up the folder ~/.cache/media-art/90 in a nautilus window, with icon view at 100%. (The appearance is similar to banshee's grid.) Drag the scrollbar thumb rapidly downwards again. Expected results: banshee is as fluid as nautilus. Actual results: There is a marked difference between the two. On my desktop (which is moderately fast), it is easy to drag the thumb in banshee in such a way that the grid view does not keep up: instead, after a delay of perhaps 1/4 second, the grid view "jumps" to the new position. By contrast, in nautilus, the icons fly by very fluently.
*** Bug 634660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please test again with 1.9.0 - it should be substantially faster.
Did not improve at all in 1.9.0. I have a netbook (EEE PC with new Atom N450), and album view and new Podcast view are unusable on this machine, making banshee as a whole very unpleseant to use. Scrolling through these liste maxes my CPU and leads to a system stall between 1 and 5 seconds before the view finally updates. I suppose the purpose of these lists should be to allow comfortable library searching and browsing, in this, both views unfortunately fail completely because of their laggy performance. There are thousand of users with netbooks, slower, or simply non-up-to-date hardware. For all of these, this lagginess and huge performace footprint greatly impact the user experience. Regards Sven
Agreed that it needs to be faster. On a desktop computer, you can slow it way down by enabling smooth scrolling (banshee-1 --smooth-scroll)
I just pushed several changes to hyena and banshee master that should speed up the grid considerably. It's still not as fast as it should be, though; smooth scroll is almost usable now for the grid on my decent-powered laptop, but obviously that's not good enough.
With smooth scroll enabled current git is fairly usable on my low powered dual core ATOM powered nettop. Not a speed demon but far improved from the 1.9.0 grid, and awe inspiringly beautiful to boot.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.