Hi, I noticed that opening many files at once with dolphin is very slow. For example, if try to open 200 images at once dolphin will freeze for a few seconds. Every other file manager that I tested this with was able to open them instantly. Does anybody else have this issue? I am on debian sid.

Local or remote files? Which application is sued to open these files? Remember that opening from a file manager will have to open 200 times the same application which is quite resource intensive, maybe not the best idea anyway. TBH I fail to see why you would have to open 200 image files at once, maybe expand on your use case?

Mamarok wrote:Local or remote files? Which application is sued to open these files? Remember that opening from a file manager will have to open 200 times the same application which is quite resource intensive, maybe not the best idea anyway. TBH I fail to see why you would have to open 200 image files at once, maybe expand on your use case?

Thanks for your reply. All files are local. sxiv is used to open said files. The application is opened once with each file path as an argument to it, so something like sxiv file1.png file2.png etc. I do not have a performance issue when starting it from the command line or from another file manager as it loads the files lazily.

Assuming all these files are in the same folder: why trying to open 200 files at once if you only want to actually look at those, why not open one and then browse in the image viewer? I do so with gwenview (the default KDE image viewer) and don't have to open 200 files from the file manager.