[Bug 41514] KMail freezes the UI when checking for new mail

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------- Additional Comments From andre familiesomers nl  2006-09-28 10:04 -------
Quoting Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins wp pl>:

> I am not talking here about fully operational multi-threaded
> processing but just refreshing the windows -- so the window won't be
> blank all of the sudden. I don't know how about Qt, but in Delphi it
> would like this:
>  while (am_I_still_processing_data())
>  {
>    process_data();
>    Application.ProcessMessages; // it ensures events are sent and
> window is refreshed
>  }
>
> Currently when I switch to other app and back KMail looks like dead,
> white rectangle, pretty ugly -- it would remedy only this, not
> problems noted in #0. Anyway worth a try.
>

Such a thing is far from trivial in a complex real world application, because
such a message (like the clicking of a button by the user) could trigger a
chain of actions that interfere with the currently running process in complex
ways. ProcessMessages() (yes, it exists in Qt as well) is by no means a magic
bullet here.

I still think that the main mail processing should be in one or more separate
worker thread(s) from the UI. Maybe that will become more easy after KDE4?

André