Bug 98336

Summary: when applying filters (CTRL-J), no clock-mouse cursor is displayed and UI is blocked
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Pascal Niklaus <pascal+kde>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.7.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Pascal Niklaus 2005-02-01 11:21:55 UTC 
Version:           1.7.2 (using KDE 3.3.2, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.111.19-default

When applying filters to the mailbox, the application is completely locked, no busy-mousecursor is displayed (clock), and no cancel option is provided.

This would be important since filter operations can take a very long time (just ran a filter over a mailbox with several thousand messages). For such operations, either a cancel option/progress dialog should be provided, and/or they should run in the background. At least, the mouse cursor should indicate that the application is busy.
Comment 1 Andreas Gungl 2005-02-05 21:34:08 UTC 
You missed one of the highest rated KDE bug reports when looking for existing duplicates. Consider voting for http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41514

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41514 ***