When you import a PDF files, there should be a progress bar showing Kritas activity. The user interface just freezes during this possibly long operation. The user should also be able to cancel the whole operation.
Thanks for your report. You are right -- and this is a problem in more places. I need to figure out how to fix that, but it'll be for 2.5.
Git commit b2524c729fb81a0d26cee1af28e72f2da3cfadde by Sven Langkamp. Committed on 10/07/2012 at 19:49. Pushed by langkamp into branch 'master'. show progress in pdf filter M +5 -0 krita/plugins/formats/pdf/kis_pdf_import.cpp http://commits.kde.org/calligra/b2524c729fb81a0d26cee1af28e72f2da3cfadde
Git commit 5c020854461b4b5a68e71e1bed782c7e99c72e23 by Thorsten Zachmann, on behalf of Sven Langkamp. Committed on 10/07/2012 at 19:49. Pushed by zachmann into branch 'calligra/2.5'. show progress in pdf filter (cherry picked from commit b2524c729fb81a0d26cee1af28e72f2da3cfadde) M +5 -0 krita/plugins/formats/pdf/kis_pdf_import.cpp http://commits.kde.org/calligra/5c020854461b4b5a68e71e1bed782c7e99c72e23