Yes, I was wondering few days ago why I took half a minute to load a VRT... Then I realized that turning off "create raster icon" speeds the loading a lot. There is no noticable lag of time now when loading 2 large VRTs (approx. 80 GB aerials each VRT).
Regards Stefan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer- > boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Andreas Neumann > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2013 09:55 > An: qgis-developer > Betreff: [Qgis-developer] Deactivate raster icon generation by default > > Hi, > > A discussion on the german fossgis-user group revealed that generating > raster > previews slows down raster loading a lot. Esp. for VRT raster catalogs. > > Can we set this setting (Settings -> Options -> Canvas and Legend -> Create > Raster > Icons (may be slow)) to off by default for new users? > > I think performance is much more important than raster icons in the legend. > In >90% > cases you cannot see a think in these small raster icons anyway. Also, a new > user > would not have the idea to turn this particular setting off to speed up > raster loading. > Even I was not aware of it. > > Thanks, > Andreas > > -- > -- > Andreas Neumann > Böschacherstrasse 10A > 8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH) > Switzerland > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer