Re: Interlaced jpegs; jump scrolling

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:42:58PM -0500, John Ellis wrote:
> Samuli Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > 
> > I recently updated to gqview 1.4.1 from pre-1.4 series. In contrast to
> > the earlier versions, interlaced jpegs are now displayed such that
> > first the coarser version is rendered on the screen, and then the
> > detailed version. This appears to be much slower - at least on this 1.4
> > GHz Celeron - than the former behaviour of not rendering the coarse
> > version.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Nothing has changed in this regard between GQView 1.2 and 1.4

Alright, it's then probably because of the same unknown reason that
some of my gtk2 apps are working many times slower than they should.

> > Another thing the older versions did better was file list scrolling. If
> > I remember correctly, it did jump scrolling: when the cursor reached
> > the end of the visible part of the list, the list was scrolled by half
> > a screen or so. That was better than the current behaviour of scrolling
> > only one line at a time, because it allowed seeing forward in the file
> > list while browsing through it one picture at a time. For my needs,
> > this is very important, as pictures are often in smallish groups when
> > sorted alphabetically, and I usually only want to see one or two
> > pictures of each group.
> 
> Should be a simple fix, added to the TODO list.

Thanks.

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