Thumbnail Image Viewer for Large Number of Files

[dteske at freebsd.org]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Carolyn Longfoot
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:28 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Thumbnail Image Viewer for Large Number of Files
> 
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm looking for recommendations for an image viewer that does not choke on a
> large number of files, I tried fotoxx but that dies on > 20,000 files and
other tools
> (like danpei) seem to want to read all files first before displaying any
thumbnails.
> Is there a tool that just dynamically reads the files and builds thumbnails as
one
> pages through the collection? I do realize that this is not quite as fast as
pre-
> cached thumbnails but with >300k images that's just not an option, anything I
> tried either crashes or just sits there for hours. The images are about 50k
each,
> coming from a network camera.
> 
> Ideally I would like to choose a thumbnail size that suits me, fill the screen
with
> them and then select the ones that are uninteresting (could be across several
> screens/pages) and delete the original files.
> 
> Maybe somebody had and solved a similar challenge. Or should I just be smarter
> and collect each day into it's own directory?
> 

As a test, I created 50,000 JPG's in one directory.

Then I ran "gthumb -"

Then I navigated to the folder containing 50,000 images.

Took about 45 seconds to initially display the contents of the folder.

Application remained usable and used only 100MB of RAM (stable/steady).

NOTE: You have to invoke it in the above manner because obviously attempting to
pass 50,000 arguments to any application on the command-line will exceed the
maximum number of arguments.

So there you go.

graphics/gthumb from ports is your answer.
-- 
Devin

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