Better browsing behaviour

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Danny
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Better browsing behaviour

Post by Danny »

Switching directorys should immediatelly cancel out any kind of thumbnail generation or metadata extraction.

I often get stuck on folders because XNview has a hard time dealing with some files.

Either that, or give me a configurable timeout. It's no fun waiting about 30 seconds until the program finally starts responding again.
Get the bugs fixed, THEN start adding features. It sucks, but someone has to do it.
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Danny wrote:Switching directorys should immediatelly cancel out any kind of thumbnail generation or metadata extraction.

I often get stuck on folders because XNview has a hard time dealing with some files.

Either that, or give me a configurable timeout. It's no fun waiting about 30 seconds until the program finally starts responding again.
You do not have this time if thumbnail generation is finished??
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What do you mean? Of course, if it doesn't choke on some (mostly video) file, everything works as it should. But on some files it takes forever to squeez out a thumbnail - or it takes forever for the program just to find out it can't extract a thumbnail at all (happens a lot for pdfs).
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Danny wrote:What do you mean? Of course, if it doesn't choke on some (mostly video) file, everything works as it should. But on some files it takes forever to squeez out a thumbnail - or it takes forever for the program just to find out it can't extract a thumbnail at all (happens a lot for pdfs).
Oh yes, it's normal for PDF, xnview start a process for that...
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Post by Danny »

xnview wrote:Oh yes, it's normal for PDF, xnview start a process for that...
But that still leaves us with video files. Isn't it possible to just flat out abort the thumb creation process?
Get the bugs fixed, THEN start adding features. It sucks, but someone has to do it.
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