activity indication without background parsing enabled

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Sat May 30 12:22:29 BST 2015


On Saturday 30 May 2015 12:14:40 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A small observation. I have a project that contains my local MacPorts
> packaging tree ("repository"): a collection of "port directories"
> containing Tcl scripts with the fetch, build and install instructions and
> accompanying patch files. It also contains a certain number of symlinks to
> other (global) port directories as well as actual source directories (git
> working clones), but those are filtered out through the project manager. I
> don't think there's anything relevant in there that KDevelop's parser could
> do anything useful with, so I disabled the whole feature for this project
> to speed up loading it. From what I can see, KDevelop indeed goes idle
> after the initial project load, but the Stop and "Stop All" toolbar buttons
> remain active; the Stop button's drop-down menu even claims there are a
> couple thousand files being parsed (which suggests that  my filters aren't
> complete or else they don't work exactly as intended).
> 
> As I said, CPU usage contradicts this indication, so it's mostly a cosmetic
> thing (I still click the "Stop All" button though). This is in KDevelop
> 4.7; maybe it's been addressed in the KF5 version, if not, consider this an
> FYI of a nice little something for on somebody's sunday morning todo list
> ;)

Yes, I noticed that as well, but did not fix it yet. Patches welcome.

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de



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