cvpcb blocks the whole UI while downloading content
Bug #1477448 reported by
Timur Kristóf
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KiCad |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Jeff Young | ||
Bug Description
When I launch cvpcb, it starts downloading things from GitHub. This is a lengthy operation and the entire UI (not just cvpcb but also eeschema and the others) become frozen until it is done. It's especially annoying when one of the downloads has a connection timeout.
Instead of freezing the whole UI, why not show cvpcb with the modules downloaded so far and a progress bar that tells what it's doing?
Revision history for this message
| Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| importance: | Low → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| importance: | Wishlist → Critical |
| assignee: | nobody → Jeff Young (jeyjey) |
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| KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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It would be nice if long tasks like this could be done off in a separate thread, yes.
For now I'm going to consider this a wishlist item. It'd be nice to have, but it's not really a _bug_ per se that it behaves the way it does - though it is an annoyance.