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Bug 665675 - Evolution UI freezes when clicking on new message with large attachment
Evolution UI freezes when clicking on new message with large attachment
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 600860
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-06 15:43 UTC by David Jaša
Modified: 2012-02-08 12:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.1/3.2


Description David Jaša 2011-12-06 15:43:42 UTC 
When downloading large attachment, whole Evolution UI freezes, preventing user to even work with other evolution parts (Calendar etc.).

IMO, Evolution should download attachments asynchronously and if the download is likely to be lengthy (e.g. less then 10 % is downloaded after one second), some download indication should be displayed (progress bar, wait wheel etc).
Comment 1 André Klapper 2011-12-07 12:13:15 UTC 
What does "downloading" mean - Is this about an IMAP account?
 Which distribution is this about?
What does "large" mean?
Comment 2 Jiri Eischmann 2011-12-07 12:27:45 UTC 
It affects me, too.

Yes, in my case it's IMAP and IMAP+ account. It behaves like this both on RHEL 6 and Fedora 15/16. "Large" means every file that is not fetched immediately. Until the file is fetched and available to open/save, Evolution is pretty much frozen.
Comment 3 Akhil Laddha 2011-12-08 03:41:06 UTC 
mostly duplicate of bug 655248
Comment 4 Tadej Janež 2011-12-23 10:53:21 UTC 
Akhil,

(In reply to comment #3)
> mostly duplicate of bug 655248

this is definitely not a duplicate of bug 655248.

I'm experiencing both bugs and they are very different "beasts".

Like David said,
Evolution should download attachments asynchronously, e.g. in a separate background thread that doesn't block the whole UI. Also, an indication of the download's progress should be displayed to prevent the user from thinking the whole application just froze.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2012-02-08 12:44:53 UTC 
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 bug 600860 ***