[Qgis-developer] Deactivate raster icon generation by default

[Andreas Neumann]

 Hi,

 I created a ticket: 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
>
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>> Von: 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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