UI can lock up (freeze) during refresh operations - not fully asynchronous

[nekohayo]

It happens quite often than when I click a folder or feed, while Liferea is refreshing, the click is completely ignored. I wait a couple seconds, realize it has been ignored, click again and it works.

That alone sounds a bit tricky to debug, but there's an easier way: trigger a global refresh and use the mousewheel to quickly and repeatedly scroll up/down in the listview widget of a feed's items... and you will get something that freezes/hiccups.

In theory the whole thing should be async and never block the gtk main loop.

[ao2]

Hi,

this UI lock-up hits me every time when I do an Update All operation.
Maybe it is more evident for me because I have a lot of feeds whose source is a command.

When a command hangs for some reason the UI hangs too, this lack of asynchronicity is the major Liferea limitation IMHO, otherwise Liferea would be just perfect for my use case.

Just for the records, the command I use the most as source in Liferea is my tweeper program (http://ao2.it/92). I use it to follow Twitter timelines "anonymously" ever since twitter stopped providing RSS feeds.

Thanks,
Antonio

[ao2]

Mmh, maybe this issue is a different one than #113, isn't it?

[lwindolf]

Closing old ticket, as there have been no more recent reports on this.