Bug#463112: eog: Very slow to show an image on a directory with many images

[Eugen Dedu]

Package: eog
Version: 2.20.4-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I have a directory with many images (my photo album with 5000 jpg
images).  Each time I invoke eog anImage.jpg on this directory, I must
wait tens of seconds, because eog reads ALL the images in this
directory.

If still is useful to read all the images in a directory before
showing an image, would it be possible to add an option to eog not to
read all these images?

Cheers,
Eugen Dedu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages eog depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.20.1-2+b1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme           2.20.0-1      GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.19-3      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libc6                      2.7-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.4.14-1      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.74-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3                 1.99.8-1      A library to parse XMP metadata (L
ii  libexif12                  0.6.16-2.1    library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgconf2-4                2.20.1-2+b1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.14.5-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.20.3-1      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.20.1-1    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.5-2      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62                  6b-14         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1                   1.16-8        Color management library
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-7     X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.31.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  python2.4                  2.4.4-7       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  shared-mime-info           0.23-1        FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages eog recommends:
ii  librsvg2-common               2.20.0-1   SAX-based renderer library for SVG

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