KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 12 Sep 2011 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Either I'm misunderstanding you, or that is unbelievable.  From the
> > earliest days of basic coding you could set a timer so that if no
> > response was obtained by then the loop exited.  Are you saying that 30
> > years on this is not possible?
> 
> Ah, but the timer won't fire because the process is executing the other
> stuff. For any kind of interrupt to work one needs at least a second
> execution context. Even then cancelling an operation might not be possible
> if it wasn't designed for that or is blocking in a call to some external
> code, e.g. a file read.
> 
> Things can usually be done more asynchronously than they are done now, but
> it  is way more complicated which is why initial implementations of things
> are almost always synchronous.
> 
> The case of something blocking due to networking is definitely fixable and 
> should have been asynchronous from the start. I recommend letting the 
> respective developer know about this limitation.

That was my feeling, too.  Thanks for the explanation.

Anne
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