Today I spent some time on Gwenview, trying to get rid of an annoying bug: when you browse images in fullscreen or when you zoom into large images, sometimes the screen goes black for a few milliseconds (bug 227155)
The changes ended up being a bit more involved than I expected, but I got rid of most black screens. You may still get some when you go to a document of a “different kind” (going from a photo to an SVG for example) but you should not see black screens anymore when going through photos or zooming them in.
I fixed a few regressions and I am quite confident it is now stable, but Gwenview could use more testers for this change. If you use KDE master (the fixes are not in Beta 2), just go through your images, manipulate them and if you find some weirdness, file a bug, help all of us enjoy a black-screen-less photo browsing world!
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great! so can we expect other black screens fixed in the future?
Which ones?
“but I got rid of most black screens. You may still get some when you go to a document of a “different kind” (going from a photo to an SVG for example)”
Those may be fixed when I finally get to do the image view refactor I want to do, but I don’t consider them as annoying as the one I already fixed.
great so good luck and keep rockin’
Could you sketch the cause of the black screens?
Basically, when you go from one image to another, Gwenview image view used to get itself ready as soon as possible, which meant getting rid of the previously displayed image, even if the current one was not ready to be displayed (ready to be displayed meaning decoded and scaled according to zoom settings). Now the image view holds on the rendering of the previous image as long as the current one is not ready instead of showing a black place-holder.
Great
This is something that always bothered me a little, I’m really glad it’s fixed now, thanks a lot !!
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