Bug 1721

Summary:	F-Spot slow and unresponsive/unuseable
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herbert Poetzl <herbert>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fundawang, marja11
Version:	1	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	f-spot-0.8.2-1.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Herbert Poetzl 2011-06-10 00:46:56 CEST

Description of problem:
F-Spot shows really bad performance and becomes unresponsive when downloading thumbnails or images.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f-spot-0.8.2-1.mga1

How reproducible:
always here

Steps to Reproduce:
1. atach digital camera (on gnome desktop)
2. select 'Open F-Spot Photo Manager'
3. select camera from 'Choose Import source...'
   at this point nothing seems to happen, an photo icon is shown
4. resize the separation bar to give more space to the thumbnails
   (which by default seems to be 0)
   this already hangs while resizing because it seems to start
   downloading thumbnails now (takes up to 60 seconds till the resize happens)
5. scroll down (hangs again, up to 40 seconds)
6. cancel or import also takes ages to happen

the thumbnail download seems to take like 10-20 seconds for each thumb, as a comparison, gphoto2 downloads 220 thumbs in 21 seconds.

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-03 01:35:31 CEST

I think that it's an upstream bug.

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2011-12-04 09:31:45 CET

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think that it's an upstream bug.

I might be looking over it, or no one ever reported it:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;version=0.8.2;product=f-spot

@ Herbert
Can you start f-spot from the terminal and see any relevant messages, when this happens?

Do you see (if you happened to check) the same problem in Mga2Alpha1?

CC: (none) => fundawang, marja11

Comment 3 Herbert Poetzl 2012-01-18 02:40:52 CET

I've updated the system to Cauldron (not sure how that relates to Mga2Alpha*) and now f-spot doesn't recognize the camera (Canon EOS 10D) at all, thus it isn't possible to import any photos anymore.

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-18 07:20:40 CET

(In reply to comment #3)
> I've updated the system to Cauldron (not sure how that relates to Mga2Alpha*)
> and now f-spot doesn't recognize the camera (Canon EOS 10D) at all, thus it
> isn't possible to import any photos anymore.

Thanks for trying with cauldron. If you just updated the system, you updated to Mga2alpha3.

gphoto still works? If not, what is the output of lsusb?

We don't have a f-spot maintainer atm, sorry, but as you can see here, as well the amount of maintained packages as the percentage of unmaintained packages is still dropping

http://kamil.mageia.org.pl/MageiaStats/

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-18 07:22:01 CET

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)

> 
> We don't have a f-spot maintainer atm, sorry, but as you can see here, as well
> the amount of maintained packages as the percentage of unmaintained packages is
> still dropping
> 
> http://kamil.mageia.org.pl/MageiaStats/

Edit: the amount of *un*maintained packages

Comment 6 Herbert Poetzl 2012-01-18 16:33:11 CET

(In reply to comment #4)
> gphoto still works? If not, what is the output of lsusb?

after fixing the device permissions manually (Bug 4177), gphoto2 (commandline) works.

> We don't have a f-spot maintainer atm, sorry, but as you can see here, as well
> the amount of maintained packages as the percentage of unmaintained packages is
> still dropping

any other (maintained) photo importer/manager for the gnome desktop?

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-18 17:19:55 CET

(In reply to comment #6)

> 
> any other (maintained) photo importer/manager for the gnome desktop?

We have shotwell, a photo organizer designed for GNOME

I don't know the package (I use KDE), all I know is that it replaced f-spot when Ubuntu 10.10 was released.

Anyway, we do have a maintainer for it :)

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-13 16:46:43 CEST

3 months later..... is this bug still valid?

Comment 9 Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-05 16:53:53 CET

This message is a reminder that Mageia 1 is nearing its end of life. 
In approximately 25 days from now, Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing 
updates for Mageia 1. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it 
remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '1'.

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Comment 10 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-02 14:36:21 CET

Mageia 1 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''1st December''. Mageia 1 is no 
longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or 
bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. 

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia 
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX