https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383157
Bug ID: 383157
Summary: Desktop Effects - Preview error makes System Settings
unresponsive
Product: systemsettings
Version: 5.10.4
Platform: Manjaro
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: polarathene-sig...@hotmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
The video/animated preview buttons when in System Settings -> Desktop Behaviour
-> Desktop Effects.
Clicking the button gets you a spinning loading indicator, and then
sometimes(Looking Glass for example) it's just blank. I guess the video/preview
failed to load or no long existed? Whatever the current format is, adding some
GIFs here locally to avoid the loading time(5-10 seconds here) should be small
on size and give an improved UX.
The expanded list item doesn't seem to have an intuitive way to collapse back
to how it was prior to the preview(clicking the video button again or another
list item doesn't collapse).
Playing with this just now actually froze up System Settings, it became
unresponsive, a warning dialog to terminate the window popped up but it's
buttons to take action are also unresponsive...which in turned popped up a
dialog to kill the unresponsive dialog to kill system settings...also
unresponsive, I sent a kill signal to system settings process to resolve.
Perhaps the failed video for the effect caused the breakage.
I can reproduce this with the "Looking Glass" effect. Press the video preview
button, wait 10 seconds or so for the spinner to disappear, should be no
preview(blank output), click the same video preview button again, it'll go grey
and the window will become unresponsive. You can resolve by killing the system
settings process, doing this a few times on nvidia seems to have killed
compositing too..
The "Looking Glass" effect actually doesn't seem to work for me at all when
I've tried it. I also haven't gone through each effect to try the preview
button so others may also be affected.
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To summarize
- Previews for some effects are invalid and causing errors (remote content
doesn't exist or is unreachable?), unresponsive window happens when using the
preview button twice for an effect, using a different effect preview button is
fine.
- Local animated GIFs or similar instead of remotely(I'm assuming they're
remotely sourced..) sourcing the preview would be nice, 5-10 sec delay,
especially for content that doesn't seem to exist is bad UX. Something might be
wrong with my install, as no previews seem to be working, but they were fine on
my friends fresh install as far as I can recall the other day(eg Wobbly Windows
or Zoom).
- The active item in the list does not collapse it's preview window(assuming
it's like the info button, clicking the preview button should do this. It will
collapse if scrolled far enough out of view.
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