[Bug 238740] New: machine blocked when accidentally attaching large number of files

[Daniel Franke]

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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