Bug 55412

Summary:	gpg signature verification not backgrounded
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	David Findlay <david>
Component:	encryption	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	elonen
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description David Findlay 2003-03-02 10:25:11 UTC

Version:           1.5 (using KDE 3.1.0)
Installed from:     (testing/unstable)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2 20030131 (Debian prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20

It would be better if verification of signatures and decryption were backgrounded as another thread, so that you could quickly change to another message without having to wait for verification. Sometimes you don't really want to look at a particular message, but if you accidently click on it, you have to wait for ages.

Comment 1 elonen 2004-04-06 11:54:15 UTC

I agree. Especially if your keyring is large, clicking on a GPG signed message sometimes hangs Kmail entirely for about a minute (I have a P4 1.4GHz and my keyring contains all Debian developers).

The nasty part is that you can't even write any new mail or cleanly close the program while the check is running. It apparently blocks the whole GUI thread: the user interface is not redrawn if you minimize and restore the window.

This still applies to Kmail 1.6.1.

Comment 2 Tristan Miller 2004-11-29 11:10:29 UTC

Is this a duplicate of Bug 33372?

Comment 3 Ismail Donmez 2004-11-29 11:33:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33372 ***