GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 730280
Thumbnails causes slow page changes
Last modified: 2017-05-30 16:35:08 UTC
When viewing some PDF files such as this one: http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf and thumbnails are displayed in the sidebar, selecting page up/down is slow if the thumbnail is not already rendered. ie if the current displayed page is at the bottom of the thumbnails sidebar, selecting the next page is delayed by 2 - 3 seconds. But if I selected the previous page, which is already displayed in the thumbnails sidebar, it is displayed in a fraction of a second.
This is a known limitation of GtkIconView and the way we are doing the cache of thumbnails. Basically GtkIconView is doing Height For width calculations and these are redone each time we update one thumbnail image...
Either related or a duplicated of Bug 730280
Probably I meant Bug 342110 :-)
FWIW, it is also slow even when showing the Index pane.
Thanks for taking the time to report this. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed in the code repository. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691448 ***