ralfbrown
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1 month ago "'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed" seems to be causing the slow start.
No, that error message takes essentially no time and is just a symptom of some other problem with the GUI. Opening the two database files is taking over 40 seconds, which shouldn't be the case unless you have hundreds of thousands of images in your libraries and are storing the databases on a slow/network drive (I just checked - my library of 370k images takes 12 seconds to open with the database stored on SSD).
darktable relies on sqlite3 for database access. Perhaps you have a misconfigured sqlite DLL?
Robotomo1
Describe the bug
Darktable 4.8.1 and Nightly 4.9.0 take about a minute to start up from first clicking on it. After such a long wait time to start the program, everything that I do inside version 4.8.1 specifically is slow. Going from the lighttable to the darkroom and changing various parameters all take about a second or two to actually do something. For example, I raise the exposure and have to wait a second or two for this raised exposure to actually be applied to the image. I'm only loading about a handful of image too, so it's not like Darktable is trying to load thousands of images. Nightly 4.9.0 however, despite it taking a minute to start, the parameter changes are almost instant.
In the log file, "'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed" seems to be causing the slow start.
Trying Darktable 4.8.1 on two different Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines does not yield the same results as on my machine.
Steps to reproduce
1 - Launch Darktable 4.8.1 or Nightly 4.9.0 2 - Edit a photo as you normally would. 4.8.1 takes a second or two to actually register every edit I make. Moving the exposure up for example takes about a second or two to actually show on the photo I'm editing
Expected behavior
Darktable should launch in less than ten seconds and each parameter change should be almost instant.
Logfile | Screenshot | Screencast
Here's the pastebin link to the logs: https://pastebin.com/MbehpPYp
In the log file, "'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed" seems to be causing the slow start.
Commit
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Where did you obtain darktable from?
4.8.1 downloaded from www.darktable.org nightly 4.9.0 downloaded from github
darktable version
4.8.1
What OS are you using?
Windows
What is the version of your OS?
Windows 10 Home
Describe your system?
Are you using OpenCL GPU in darktable?
Yes
If yes, what is the GPU card and driver?
GTX 1050ti 4gb. Driver version 561.09
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Darktable 4.2.1 and 4.0.0 fail to launch. Darktable nightly 4.9.0 launches slowly, but paramater changes are instant.