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[Aaron Peachey <alpeachey@xxxxxxxxx>]

No problems, I grabbed the branch at the wrong time. Which revision should I
look at?

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Matthew McGowan <
matthew.joseph.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yea sorry about that, the detailsview wierd layout stuff, i commented out
> the allocate code in detailsview_gtk to see if it was the cause of a hang i
> was seeing in the test suit.  i pushed the branch cos i wanted to show gary
> something.  i'll push something nicer tomorrow day sometime.
>
>
> Matt
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Aaron Peachey <alpeachey@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> I'm coming in a bit late on this but thought I'd give it a look and see if
>> I can assist at all.
>>
>> I'm using it on my Maverick machine and it is working nice and fast but
>> the app details screens are coming up with some weird layout issues. It has
>> happened on every app that I open but there's little consistency from one
>> app to the next.
>> Not sure if this is a WIP or if it's something to do with Maverick? I'll
>> try it on my Natty laptop when I can get to it but thought I'd post this for
>> no, for anyone whose interested in taking a look. Screenshots attached.
>>
>> Let me know if you want me to test anything else in regards to this (or if
>> I'm completely missing the point, in which case, tell me to go back to bed!)
>>
>> cheers
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Gary Lasker <gary.lasker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hey Matt, I haven't actually had a chance to look at the hang situation
>>> further yet today, but I sounds like you are on the right track. I tried
>>> adding a main_iteration in the section that you mention (inside the
>>> append_placeholders method) and indeed the UI is no longer blocked. The
>>> only problem is that if I navigate to a details view and back to the
>>> list, the list then becomes blank (and I see lots of "Interrupting ..."
>>> messages being spewed).  But maybe I'm not doing things in the right
>>> place, etc.  I don't think you've uploaded this change to your own
>>> branch, correct?  At least, I'm not seeing it?  Anyway, if you do, just
>>> ping me or send email; I'm happy to test!
>>>
>>> Thanks!  And cheers,
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/25/2011 03:49 PM, Matthew McGowan wrote:
>>> > Hey Gary!
>>> >
>>> > I have not looked at your branch just yet, so you may have fixed this
>>> > already, but i think i know what is causing the issue you are seeing.
>>> >
>>> > In LitsStore.set_from_matches i do the following:
>>> >
>>> > # append empty rows
>>> > for i in range(len(matches[initial_batch:])):
>>> >      self.append()
>>> >
>>> > On my system to append all the empty rows for the System cat takes 0.5
>>> > sec.  Now in this loop I do main_iterations, this adds a bit of time to
>>> > the whole build of the list but it probably solves the issue you are
>>> > seeing.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Matt
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Gary Lasker <
>>> gary.lasker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > <mailto:gary.lasker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     Heya Matt and everybody,
>>> >
>>> >     This branch feels like it's coming into shape. Things seem to be
>>> mostly
>>> >     working for me now, but I am still seeing some strange pauses at
>>> times
>>> >     and, in one case still, a complete freeze. This last happens when I
>>> >     click on the "System" category. I see the list get rendered, but
>>> then Le
>>> >     Centre just freezes up and clicking on things does nothing.
>>> Finally, the
>>> >     app greys out.
>>> >
>>> >     Note that this happens on my work laptop only. If I try this on my
>>> Dell
>>> >     Mini, there is no freeze and the System category works fine. Hrm
>>> hrm.
>>> >
>>> >     I also noticed a bug where clicking between the full "Provided by
>>> >     Ubuntu" view and the installed "Provided by Ubuntu" would actually
>>> not
>>> >     refresh the view. I have a potential fix for this in my branch:
>>> >
>>> >      lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/appstore-experiment
>>> >
>>> >     I'll dig more into the slowdowns and my "System" freeze issue
>>> tomorrow.
>>> >
>>> >     Rock on developers!
>>> >     Gary
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     On 02/24/2011 05:00 PM, Matthew McGowan wrote:
>>> >     >
>>> >     >
>>> >     > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Michael Vogt <mvo@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> >     <mailto:mvo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >     > <mailto:mvo@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mvo@xxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:57:14AM +1300, Matthew McGowan
>>> wrote:
>>> >     >     > Hi folks,
>>> >     >     Hi Matthew,
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     > I think i just pushed the last major bits of functionality
>>> >     for my
>>> >     >     appstore
>>> >     >     > listmodel/treemodel branch.  I think it's working fine.
>>>  but
>>> >     i am
>>> >     >     a lazy
>>> >     >     > tester.
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     > lp:~mmcg069/software-center/appstore-experiment
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     I worked on my version of this branch today:
>>> >     >     lp:~mvo/software-center/appstore-experiment
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     I really like the new code layout, very nice aand smooth.
>>> Also the
>>> >     >     delayed loading is pretty cool. I updated the tests and did
>>> some
>>> >     >     cleanups. However I get a hang when I run "test_gui.py". Its
>>> 100%
>>> >     >     reproducable for me (on three machines) and I wasn't able to
>>> >     pinpoint
>>> >     >     the issues. If I remove the test_gui.py
>>> >     test_previous_purchase() all
>>> >     >     tests pass. But the hang makes me nervous as it appears to be
>>> >     >     something in the idle/timeout handler within gtk. My worry is
>>> >     that its
>>> >     >     something that is a deeper issue with the ListStore.
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     > The installedview particularly could use some brutal
>>> testing.  I
>>> >     >     have now
>>> >     >     > implemented filter and show|hide technical software.  Seems
>>> to
>>> >     >     work nice
>>> >     >     > enough, and I see no crashers or other heinous side-effects
>>> but
>>> >     >     like i said
>>> >     >     > i am a lazy tester.
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     > There are appview aspects which need polish, i.e. keyboard
>>> >     >     expand-collapse
>>> >     >     > of categories in the installedview.  There is prob more i
>>> have
>>> >     >     overlooked,
>>> >     >     > but they should be small UI things.  I also understand from
>>> mvo
>>> >     >     some tests
>>> >     >     > are failing.  I have not looked into this just yet,
>>> probably
>>> >     tonight.
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     Those are updated now and work except for the one hang that I
>>> >     outlined
>>> >     >     above.
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     > If people get a chance, could you play with it see how it
>>> works
>>> >     >     for you?
>>> >     >     >  obviously feedback and/or code appreciated!  I imagine the
>>> >     >     chances are slim
>>> >     >     > right now but I'd love to see this in s-c tomorrow!  :P
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     I (and you too of course) worked hard today to make this
>>> >     happend. I
>>> >     >     still would love to merge it and get a feature-freeze
>>> >     exception for it,
>>> >     >     but I really want to get to the bottom of the hang before
>>> >     doing that.
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     Cheers,
>>> >     >      Michael
>>> >     >
>>> >     >
>>> >     > mvo, thanks so much for your hard work yesterday, i appreciate
>>> the
>>> >     help!
>>> >     > hope it didn't get in the way of too much.
>>> >     >
>>> >     > I'll look into the hang and other things this weekend.  I suspect
>>> it's
>>> >     > due to either overlapping appends and/or queries and things
>>> becoming
>>> >     > inconsistent.
>>> >     >
>>> >     > I tried a decorator which interrupts and waits for an idle append
>>> to
>>> >     > return, that seems quite effective and i think solves a subset of
>>> >     errors
>>> >     > i've seen.
>>> >     >
>>> >     > I am getting some xapian.DatabaseCorruption Errors in the branch
>>> which
>>> >     > occur during either documt selection from the db
>>> >     > (xapiandb.get_document(match.docid)) or on get_mset().  I dont
>>> really
>>> >     > know what to think here.  Perhaps creating new AppEnquire's each
>>> >     time we
>>> >     > need to do a query, similar to how we use the existing AppStore?
>>> >     >
>>> >     > --
>>> >     > From the mind of me!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > From the mind of me!
>>>
>>>
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