[Qgis-developer] Deactivate raster icon generation by default

[kimaidou]

+1 for applying this for 2.0


2013/6/27 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>

> Hi,
>
> I created a ticket: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/**8175<http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8175>
>
> If noone objects we should apply this for QGIS 2.0
>
> Andreas
>
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:25:33 +0000, Ziegler Stefan wrote:
>
>> 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-bounces at lists.**osgeo.org<qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>[mailto:
>>> qgis-developer-
>>> bounces at 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
>>>
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