When switching Info module sections that use some variables loaded for example from files, than we see for a moment those variables placeholders like {NameVersionLabel} or {UrlLabel} in About System section. See attached screenshot to see it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Info module 2. Switch between Memory and About System sections 3. Observ the lag when loading and replacing placeholders in About System section content Actual Results: For a moment we see variables placeholders like {NameVersionLabel} Expected Results: Placeholders hsould never be seen - just final output
Created attachment 100329 [details] About System kcm content with variables placeholders inside Info mdule
You can actually keep clicking the about-distro module to reload it and observe this happening. Why there is such a noticable delay in loading is a bit peculiar. Assuming it's not just bad code that takes longer than necessary we probably should simply setHidden(true) everything and setHidden(false) when loading is done. Alas, that simply changes the issue from "random text" to "noticable time empty" so it's probably more of a workaround. Also I'd say this applies to some KCMs but not all of them. e.g. Memory looks fine. Energy Information however also has the weird delay going on.
I suggest to add a "load();" at the end of the constructor for each module, where the information is sufficiently fast displayed.
Git commit 8600dff7216c8f983ce991ac2e856b3aa7df28b7 by Harald Sitter. Committed on 27/07/2016 at 13:25. Pushed by sitter into branch 'Plasma/5.7'. always load about-distro in ctor Summary: otherwise get a noticable delay during which we show dummy data. since we only access on-disk content and only very little of it loading via ctor should have next to no impact. Reviewers: cfeck, sebas Reviewed By: sebas Subscribers: plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2300 M +6 -0 Modules/about-distro/src/Module.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kinfocenter/8600dff7216c8f983ce991ac2e856b3aa7df28b7