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alogim

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[SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

I installed ArchLinux a few days ago with KDE Plasma 5.
I noticed that, when I use Dolphin, If I want to resize a column's width, it actually resizes itself, but it is really slow.

In fact, starting dolphin from Konsole, I noticed that when I am resizing a column, it keeps saving properties to a file.
The output is as following:

...
org.kde.dolphin: Saving view-properties to "/home/michael/.local/share/dolphin/view_properties/global"
org.kde.dolphin: Saving view-properties to "/home/michael/.local/share/dolphin/view_properties/global"
org.kde.dolphin: Saving view-properties to "/home/michael/.local/share/dolphin/view_properties/global"
org.kde.dolphin: Saving view-properties to "/home/michael/.local/share/dolphin/view_properties/global"
...

Is anyone experiencing my same problem?
I'm running:

➜  ~  dolphin -v
dolphin 15.08.0

Thank you in advance,
Michael

Last edited by alogim (2015-09-20 14:05:27)

hoerbert

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

Hi Michael,

yep, same for me. Looks like an upstream bug to me, which should be reported at bugs.kde.org

Greets,

Torben

pb

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

I don't know a solution, but it's rather not upstream bug (or maybe for some configuration). I have Plasma 5.4 & Dolphin 15.08.0 installed and do not notice such behavior of Dolphin. Resizing columns is very fast and - when I start Dolphin from command line - I don't notice any "saving view-properties". Then maybe it's something with configuration of yours machines/Plasma?
My is:

System:    Host: evo Kernel: 4.1.6-3-pavbaranov x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.2.0) Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.4.0 (Qt 5.5.0)
           Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: S156-A6E21450G01 v: 088CD80000000000000000000
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 193B v: 87.0B Bios: Insyde v: F.14 date: 11/08/2012
CPU:       Dual core AMD A6-4455M APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 8383
           clock speeds: max: 2100 MHz 1: 1300 MHz 2: 1800 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7500G] bus-ID: 00:01.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.17.2 drivers: ati,radeon Resolution: 1366x768@59.99hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD ARUBA (DRM 2.42.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-529acab) Direct Rendering: Yes

Last edited by pb (2015-08-26 07:56:58)

hoerbert

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

I don't think it is hardware-dependent, because the error seems "logical" to me. If you resize the columns dolphin has to store the new column-widths somewhere, so writing them to a file. And it seems like dolphin does not do this when the resizing is done, but at every little change which is made. And so the resizing is laggy, because it has to write this file so many times. If it does not save this file for you at all, I suspect we are not talking about the same thing or you disabled dolphins setting to separately save the view for every folder. So it may be dolphin-configuration-dependent.

Just to clarify: We talk about the resizing of columns in "Detail-View". The view, where the filename, size, creation-date and other data are shown in columns in the main-area of dolphin.

alogim

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

Exactly Hoerbert. The lag problem is due to the continuous update of that file. It is rather strange it doesn't wait for resizing to be finished. I tried disabling/enabling various settings and even deleting that file, but it is created if not present. So if anyone other is experiencing this or has experienced this and then solved it please let me now.

Michael

pb

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

I suspect we are not talking about the same thing or you disabled dolphins setting to separately save the view for every folder. So it may be dolphin-configuration-dependent.

Yes, I disabled it.

hoerbert

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

I reported a bug upstream. Let's see, what the experts say.

//Edit: Should have added the link: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351846

Last edited by hoerbert (2015-08-27 15:41:48)

alogim

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

I reported a bug upstream. Let's see, what the experts say.

//Edit: Should have added the link: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351846

Nice, I'm really looking forward what they will say.
By the way, I formatted and re/installed both Archlinux and plasma 5 but this bug persists. Even on a fresh install, without touching settings inside Dolphin, resizing columns causes that file to be written a lot of times, slowing down Dolphin.

I'd like to give a look to the source code, but I really don't know where to look.

Michael

hoerbert

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

After todays update of dolphin to version 15.08.1 this is fixed for me. How about you?

alogim

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Re: [SOLVED][KDE][Dolphin] Resizing columns causes Dolphin to slow down

After todays update of dolphin to version 15.08.1 this is fixed for me. How about you?

Yep, for me too, finally