GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 795603
Preferences dialog extremely slow to open (Regression from 2.8)
Last modified: 2018-06-17 20:10:12 UTC
Edit > Preferences dialog takes 1 min 17 sec (average of 3 tries) to open under Windows 10. This is a considerable regression compared tp v 2.8.14 (which was itself quite slow!) - average 40 secs on three trials on the same machine.
That's a weird issue. Even 40 seconds, that is already very slow! Can anyone reproduce this?
The known "no disk drive slows down any file access" comes to mind. Do any other things - like open a file export or save dialog - have a similar delay?
I agree, this is probably the "file chooser extremely slow to appear" issue, there are quite a few file chooser buttons in prefs.
(In reply to Michael Schumacher from comment #2) > The known "no disk drive slows down any file access" comes to mind. > > Do any other things - like open a file export or save dialog - have a > similar delay? Yes, file export and save dialogs are also slow, although nowhere near as slow as the preferences dialog
You should check if this applies to your system: https://superuser.com/questions/979504/load-dialog-disk-access-slowdown-on-windows-10/
I tried disabling the legacy floppy drive in the BIOS and it has made no difference. GIMP 2.10 still taking about 23 sec to open the "Export As" dialog (or "Save As" - no difference between these as far as I can see.
I found something that makes a big difference! When I opened File Explorer, my Dropbox folder was expanding - and I have been finding this annoying for some time. So I did some Googling to find a way to stop it. The solution (found on StackExchange) is bizarre! In File Explorer, you right click on the offending folder in the left-hand, folder tree pane, but don't touch anything in the context menu. Now (back in the left hand pane of the main Explorer window), click the arrow next to the folder to collapse it. Then close File Explorer. On subsequent occasions, when you open File Explorer, bingo! the folder magically remains collapsed. After doing this, I suddenly noticed that the Save and Export dialogs in GIMP 2.10 opened almost instantly and the Preferences dialog opens in about 4s. GIMP 2.8 is similarly affected. How bizarre is this?
So as expected, the guess is that some file-related widget tries to read/sync from all drive at creation, and since Dropbox is a network drive, that takes time. In Preferences, we have a bunch of file-related widgets, which makes it worse. Now we still have this one same issue: is there a Windows developer around who wishes to dig into this problem?
-- GitLab Migration Automatic Message -- This bug has been migrated to GNOME's GitLab instance and has been closed from further activity. You can subscribe and participate further through the new bug through this link to our GitLab instance: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1374.
Stuart, can you please anwswer my question at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1374