[chandler-users] Annoying modality bug with "Purging..." and "Tip..." dialog

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi William,

> 	When I started Chandler 0.7.7 today it issued a grab for the mouse and
> then wouldn't respond.  I had to login from another system to kill
> chandler to be able to get back my system.  I let the "Tip of the Day"
> display and it had popped up, then the "Purging Obsolete Data in nn
> seconds" dialog popped up.  At which point I could not click on anything
> to get the system to respond.  I watched and waited while it count down
> the seconds and then purged the data.  After completing that it still
> wouldn't let me click on anything.  Now application modal is bad enough
> however it appears that it is using system modal because I couldn't even
> get to any of my other windows.  I would recommend that you remove
> modality from the "Tip..." dialog (if there is any) and make sure that
> all dialogs that can come up are only application modal (if necessary)
> and not system modal.
> 
> Thank you,
> William.
> 
> Platform: Linux Fedora 7 displaying to a Linux Fedora Core 2
> workstation.

I don't think wx offers a dialog that's modal for all applications, but 
that dialog is modal within Chandler.

Once in a great while I see something like this when starting Chandler. 
  Basically the CPU gets pegged and UI is blocked for 2-3 minutes.  When 
the CPU is pegged, it often appears to me that the whole system has 
stopped responding, but it's just slowed to a crawl.  I've always gotten 
the UI to respond again eventually (if I walk away and come back later), 
but that's not much comfort, I know.

We would LOVE it if you found a way to reliably reproduce the problem, 
since debugging an infrequent but deeply irritating bug like this is 
really hard.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey