Cannot cancel opening by dnd some remote file which does not respond
@Jehan
Submitted by Jehan Link to original bug (#775772)
Description
Created attachment 341584 GIMP frozen, Cancel button useless…
I was trying to open some remote file from bug 126306: http://primates.ximian.com/~jimmac/Mono/mono-powered-big.mng
I guess the file is not there anymore, but the server is not responding to the request, so it just hangs. When opening with the Open dialog, it was OK. I could still Cancel whenever I wanted.
On the other hand, if I tried to open by dragging & dropping the URL onto GIMP, a "Cancel" icon is shown in the status bar but hitting it did nothing. I had to wait that the time out happened (like 5 or 10 minutes. I don't know exactly when you wait, it feels like forever and you are rather tempted to kill GIMP).
Steps:
- dnd the above link into GIMP.
Result: it will try to open it, the progress bar stays at 0, and GIMP will look frozen. No part of the GUI is sensitive anymore and hitting Cancel does nothing. Eventually it would time out.
Expected result: I should be able to hit "Cancel". Alternatively I may be ok to wait, but the rest of the UI should stay functional. So that I can work on any opened image while the new image is getting opened in the background.
Attachment 341584, "GIMP frozen, Cancel button useless…":
Version: git master