GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 620608
'add tag' context menu item too slow. totally kills workflow.
Last modified: 2010-06-14 20:34:44 UTC
When having hundreds of tags, which is easily obtainable, the 'add tag' submenu in the context menu takes more than 10 seconds to load on my beefy desktop PC. This makes the whole menu useless (an I use it to remove or delete photos and add rating) as an unintentional hover over the add tag item means staring at a locked f-spot for seconds. do it up and down and it's more like a minute. As adding tags is achievable with a menu or the type tag interface, I seriously suggest to remove this completely.
Created attachment 162780 [details] [review] Remove "Add Tag" menu.
Attachment 162780 [details] pushed as ebd3f36 - Remove "Add Tag" menu. Now you see it, now you don't! Done!
From gitorious: > Guys, very bad idea, IMO! > This was the only way of tagging in a full screen mode. > Maybe a better idea was to cache something? It shouldn’t > take 10 secs to populate a menu of hundreds of tags… > > Anton Keks
Well to be honest it was the only way to add tags in fullscreen mode with only a few tags available. Can we perhaps enable the 'T' tagging in fullscreen? I agree making this fast would be a solution, but it's not a trivial fix.
(In reply to comment #4) > Can we perhaps enable the 'T' tagging in fullscreen? I > agree making this fast would be a solution, but it's not a trivial fix. there's a request for that: bug 322611. I agree that right click tagging with a huge tree is almost impossible.
Okay, we need a solution here. How hard would it be to add tag-to-type to fullscreen? A really long tree of tags is indeed unusable. As far as I know, the tag entry box is fairly self-contained, so it should be rather doable, but I could be wrong. Blocker for 0.7.0.
Closing this bug (as it is fixed). Right way forward seems to add fullscreen type tagging. Info about this is in bug 322611.