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[Stephen Lyons <slysven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As we have added messages to the screen at the beginning and end of map
file loading and have made progress with the "Unpacking module/package"
widget that pops up whilst modules/packages are being installed into a
profile I believe this is less of an issue now.

I do have a suspicion that the message at the start of map loading may
not be put up at the time it is generated but not until the end so that
all the map loading messages are not displayed until it has completed.
If I can confirm this then I think another tweak will be needed {adding
qApp->processEvent() calls after some of the Host::postMessage(...) one}
but I will need to check for this first.

Whilst this bug does have some linkage to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413069 that is specific to
module/package installation which was only part of this issue so I think
it is not correct to mark this as a duplicate of the latter and so am
un-tagging it as one.

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1413069
   unpacking mpackages stalls

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1254364

Title:
  Mudlet freezes while loading a profile, providing no user feedback or
  progress

Status in Mudlet:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Mudlet can freeze while loading a real-world profile, providing no
  user feedback or progress - which is quite bad because the user is
  stuck wondering if it's working at all or not.

  GNOME HIG (https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/hig-book.html
  #controls-progress-bars), Apple HIG
  (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/Controls/Controls.html)
  Windows HIG (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
  us/library/windows/desktop/bb760816(v=vs.85).aspx) all recommend
  showing some kind of a progress bar when the task is taking more than
  a few seconds in general.

  Attached a video where Mudlet freezes and provides no experience to
  the user while the profile is loading - first freeze is from 0:13 to
  0:24 (11 seconds!), second is from 1:07 to 1:17 (10 seconds!).

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