https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406506
--- Comment #12 from Méven Car <meve...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Méven Car from comment #10) > I did some investigation to fix this. > > The limitation is currently in kbaloorolesprovider > In QHash<QByteArray, QVariant> KBalooRolesProvider::roleValues(const > Baloo::File& file, > [...] > // The baloo roles provider calls : > QMapIterator<KFileMetaData::Property::Property, QVariant> > it(file.properties()); > > But has no other patch when baloo does not respond anything. > Contrary to the InformationPanel that uses baloo-widgets FileMetaDataWidget > widget that uses FileMetaDataProvider that uses IndexedDataRetriever when > baloo has not find metadata. > However IndexedDataRetriever calls directly the executable > baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor in a process to retrieve metadata for a > file, and this is not a great idea to reuse the IndexedDataRetriever in a > loop as the detail view needs, since for each file a process would need to > get spawned, creating some overhead. > And the dolphin view is filled synchronously in KFileItemModelRolesUpdater, > making the UI freeze when the metadata are retrieved. > > So the solution would be either reuse IndexedDataRetriever for the detail > view and pay the price, or implement an API in Baloo to call do what > baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor does asynchronously and make dolphin able > to load metadata asynchronously. `baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor` is in `extractor.cpp` whose code could be turned into a KJob, that dolphin could use. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
