Re: SolarMutex: please educate me

2013-05-15 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2013-05-15 13:10, Stephan Bergmann wrote: Sure, as I already wrote: "all GUI frameworks have settled on 'confine relevant code to run in a single event-loop thread' instead" for a reason. However, doing that change is an endeavor far from trivial... Perhaps one approach would be (a) d

Re: SolarMutex: please educate me

2013-05-15 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 05/15/2013 12:54 PM, Noel Grandin wrote: On 2013-05-15 12:09, Caolán McNamara wrote: Yeah, and I'm continually dithering as to where to put one for the various writer mail merge wizard "oh my god its not locked" asserts. Instead of trying to get locking correct everywhere, perhaps we should

Re: SolarMutex: please educate me

2013-05-15 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2013-05-15 12:09, Caolán McNamara wrote: Yeah, and I'm continually dithering as to where to put one for the various writer mail merge wizard "oh my god its not locked" asserts. Instead of trying to get locking correct everywhere, perhaps we should be doing a Java-Swing style thing where we

Re: SolarMutex: please educate me

2013-05-15 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 11:49 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 05/13/2013 07:12 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > Base or Base-related code seems to have some issues around the > > "SolarMutex". > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61725 > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cg

Re: SolarMutex: please educate me

2013-05-14 Thread julien2412
it's not simple and perhaps there's a lot of work ahead (so for 4.2 version?) but would there be anything (eg tedious/long but easy to do) which could be done as a prerequisite? Julien -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/SolarMutex-please-educate-m

Re: SolarMutex: please educate me

2013-05-14 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 05/13/2013 07:12 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Base or Base-related code seems to have some issues around the "SolarMutex". https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61725 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64241 (and others historically) Please educate me on the SolarMutex. Wha

SolarMutex: please educate me

2013-05-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, Base or Base-related code seems to have some issues around the "SolarMutex". https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61725 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64241 (and others historically) Please educate me on the SolarMutex. What is its meaning, when should be held/acquired,