Bug 58162

Summary: no progress bar. no windows retracing during slow operations
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Simone Piunno <pioppo>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Tru64 Unix Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Simone Piunno 2003-05-06 00:02:02 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:          Linux

I must admit, my hardware isn't the faster on earth (k6-2 350MHz, 192M RAM) 
but when I do the following operations:
 - select many messages, right click on them, save as
 - open an imported folder, requirding .index and .index.ids rebuilding
 - sort a big folder which was never sorted before (requiring .index.sorted building)
kmail lasts several seconds (or tens of seconds) taking 100% CPU and without retracing
the window nor showing a progression bar.  I think this is unacceptable on a usability
standpoint... being slow is ok unless everything else gets blocked (which is really bad 
on interactive GUI-based applications.... recalls me when netscape 4.77 froze waiting 
for DNS resolutions, back in mid-nineties).
Comment 1 Till Adam 2003-10-06 00:05:40 UTC 
Simone, thanks for your bug report. We are aware of the situation and working on 
improving it.
Comment 2 George Staikos 2004-03-23 03:42:37 UTC 
Basically the same problem as 56446.  I think progress dialogs would be sufficient for now, and easy to hook in.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56446 ***