From: Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> Subject: libreoffice: opening a file should not block the whole application Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:25:44 +0100 Package: libreoffice Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I frequently work with foreign files of the MSO variety, and opening them can easily take a lot of time (> 1 minute). I would much prefer to not wait until the file is completely read, but instead work on a different file that I already have open in the meantime. But every time I open a file, the whole application blocks until loading has finished. Kind regards, --Toni++
Adding needAdvice. We have to know, if the scope of this single report is too big, requiring a total multi-threading revolution.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 65046 ***
'un-duping' from 65046 as it's a different request to have 'open file' 'non-blocking' (be able to do (interactive) work on other files during the wait time) than to speed up things - and open file - by parallelizing computations, (besides it may be easier to implement since threading is available)