[Bug 238740] New: machine blocked when accidentally attaching large number of files
Daniel Franke
franke.daniel at gmail.com
Mon May 24 21:55:39 BST 2010
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238740
Summary: machine blocked when accidentally attaching large
number of files
Product: kmail
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian stable
OS/Version: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: composer
AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
ReportedBy: franke.daniel at gmail.com
Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.4.3)
OS: Linux
In a directory that contains probably thousands of files, I intended to select
three to attach them to a message. For unknown reasons I seem to have selected
all files.
It appears that for each file, a transmission dialog pops up and possibly, a
thread or process is spawned. My box is not fully dead yet, but blocked for at
least 45 minutes now. Display updates are done once per minute, if at all.
Keyboard input is not processed (think 'kill' in konsole).
Please, pretty please: either change the transfer system to only open one
dialog and queue all files there which would make it easy to stop the whole
thing. Or at the very least, add a confirmation dialog that asks if an
unusually large number of files shall be attached (10?), whether this shall
really be done.
Popping up thousands of file transfer dialogs that would need to be closed
individually (assuming the system accepts keystrokes or mouse clicks) is ...
unreasonable.
Reproducible: Didn't try
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