On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:21:18PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > On 04.05.2011 19:38, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >- Missing ability to kill converters if they got stalled. You have to > > wait for a timeout and cannot kill them because they are in a thread > > of your same process. > > I don't know if I understand this, but also processes created by > QProcess could be killed.
I was talking about the converters started for preview/export. They run in a thread and don't appear in the task manager on Windows or in a "ps -ef" on *nix. I was recently bitten by this and had to wait for 30 minutes before I could continue the work without killing lyx itself. As bloat calls for other bloat, maybe a thread manager that allows to forcibly quit stalled threads is in order :) -- Enrico
