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Bug 338908 - Don't hang when parsing long playlists
Don't hang when parsing long playlists
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 559628
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
: 400365 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-18 16:23 UTC by Björn Lindqvist
Modified: 2009-07-26 16:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Björn Lindqvist 2006-04-18 16:23:55 UTC 
(This is a feature request and a bug I suppose)

1. Have a directory with a huge number of music files.
2. Right click on that directory and choose "Open with Totem".
3. Wait and wait and wait.

At step 3 totem freezes and appears to have crashed. In reality, it is just busy reading the directory structure but the GUI is frozen. It would be cool if instead Totem would start and display a dialog with a progress bar with the text "Reading music file..." or something. Then you would know it was busy working. You could also have a cancel button on the progress dialog.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-04-18 16:30:59 UTC 
If you use Totem 1.4.0 or the current CVS, you'll see the nice spinny hourglass cursor.
Comment 2 Björn Lindqvist 2006-04-18 17:25:27 UTC 
While a spinning hourglass certainly is an improvement, I'd still opt for having a progress dialog and a way to cancel the operation.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2007-01-25 00:07:39 UTC 
*** Bug 400365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Philip Withnall 2009-07-26 16:08:07 UTC 
Marking as a dupe of bug #559628 since that has some examples.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 559628 ***