[Panel-devel] Multithreaded krunner

[Ryan Bitanga]

On Dec 2, 2007 1:44 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 December 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > wonderful =) please commit and i'll make the above additional improvements.
> > thanks =)
>
> hm.. there seems to be some deadlocks still in there. with rapid type and
> ctrl-u'ing i can get krunner to either completely lock (ui repaints, but all
> interaction, including typing or clicking on buttons, is gone) or just not
> get any matches (so you type and no matches show up)...
>
> i'll try and investigate this tomorrow.
How long does it lock? The most I've experienced is a fraction of a
second which is an improvement over the previous one that took around
5 seconds at times. I haven't dug deep but the GUI thread is only
blocked when matches are updated.

Cheers,
Ryan