From: Don A. <don...@co...> - 2005-05-05 18:22:14
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On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 12:21 -0500, Doug M-C wrote: > I have a couple of reflections/questions. Nothing that should stop > 2.0, but usability issues... > > 1) The program is fairly sloooow! (Intel Pentium III > 800Mhz w/ 512MB RAM and Ubuntu 5.04 using XFCE4 > rather than Gnome, gramps 1.1.99-1 with a database of several > thousand items (2500 individuals?)) > > Specifically, when I double click a person/source/whatever to > edit, it takes several (3? 4?) seconds for the edit window to > appear; when I click the <add> button to add a filter rule to a > new filter, it takes five or more seconds for the filter rule > window to pop up; and the current filter action of "any textual > record contains..." has taken over 3 minutes and the display still > has not updated (the phrase might be in about half the records). This is rather odd. I don't see this on my 1GHz PIII (256MB) laptop. It is also running Ubuntu 5.04 with full GNOME. Do you have a test case you could send me? > 2) When I imported my gedcom back whenever, the gedcom had each > source as a separate entry (all 2650 or so of them!!!!!) So now I > have a database with 2650 odd 'imported sources' and I am > struggling to find a way to organise them properly. There are > probably only a couple of hundred individual sources with the vast > majority of the material coming from just four or five sources. > Each source lists mainly Event IDs in the reference tab. Could you send me the GEDCOM file? Don -- Don Allingham <don...@co...> |