Bug 282732

Summary: Kopete slows system to a crawl when animating tray icon
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Gamblit <kdebugzilla>
Component: generalAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.0.80   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gamblit 2011-09-25 11:52:36 UTC 
Version:           1.0.80 (using KDE 4.6.5) 
OS:                Linux

When Kopete has the "Animate tray icon", it will animate the tray icon when a message is received. If left to animate for a while (not sure how long, but let's say 5 minutes) it will slow the whole system to a crawl until I click the rotating icon (rotating at about 0.1 frames per second by then) to open ALL pending chat windows. About 10 seconds after the last chat window is opened the system returns to normal.

plasma-desktop is actually the one consuming 100% CPU, not Kopete, but the issue is related to Kopete's animating icon. If the animation is disabled the there is no slowdown whatsoever.

I notice it especially when I leave the computer for a while and return to find it god awful slow, but I've also experienced it while siting in front of the computer and ignoring a message for too long.

I can reproduce it on 4 different computers, with a mix of KDE 4.x versions, Kopete versions, and linux distros (at least Fedora and Gentoo).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- Activate system tray animating icon
- Activate "Animate icon on message"
- Receive a message on Kopete (MSN or GTalk are the only one's I use).
- Wait 5 or 10  minutes without reading the message

Actual Results:  
Animating icon is "animating" at about 0.1 fps and the whole system is slow courtesy of plasma-desktop eating the whole CPU.

Expected Results:  
Icon animating as normal speed, low CPU usage.

I have "message queue" and "Queue unread messages" enabled (dunno if it makes a difference.
Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-06 15:12:22 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-18 03:28:40 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2022-12-20 22:51:56 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 4 Gamblit 2022-12-21 03:13:40 UTC 
It has been 11 year since I reported this, and I reported it on KDE 4.6. I haven't used Kopete in maybe 6 years, and probably haven't used KDE 4 since 2016 or so.

I think it might be safe to close this bug. If it still existed someone using Kopete in the last 11 years would have probably also reported it.
Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2023-01-05 05:25:41 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as
possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug
tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with
no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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If you have already provided the requested information, please
mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is
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Comment 6 Bug Janitor Service 2023-01-20 05:08:58 UTC 
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!