UI Freeze in Help>About and in Installation Details

[nlisker]

Opening Help>About and also Installation Details from there causes a UI freeze the first time these dialogs are opened.

ui freeze log.log

I think that the events that happened up to 11:22:46 (inclusive) are for Help>About, and at 11:22:57 are for Installation Details.

I assume that the freeze is caused by reading the features and plugins. This can be done in a background thread and populated when the results are accumulated, or even update the lists continuously as the results are updated (more fancy). A temporary stand-in message "fetching...", or some progress indicator could be displayed meanwhile.

The log is for 4.33, but it has been happening on previous versions too.

[jukzi]

will you work on this?

[nlisker]

I'm not familiar enough with the platform unfortunately. Just reporting.

[deepika-u]

@nlisker - I am unable to reproduce this. are you observing this in the base SDK, or do you have a number of features installed? if so, how many? I shall try to mimic that by adding that many features.