#2654 HIGH Trial-3: Sugar Shell is offering D-Bus services in the UI loop

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#2654: Sugar Shell is offering D-Bus services in the UI loop
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  Reporter:  tomeu   |       Owner:  tomeu  
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Trial-3
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:         
Resolution:          |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment (by tomeu):

 Replying to [comment:3 AlbertCahalan]:
 > If either the UI or the D-Bus stuff is taking a significant amount of
 time (or even blocking), then that is the root of the problem. Adding
 threads may hide the problem from the user, but CPU usage (and thus power
 usage) will only get worse.

 Well, all services offered today by the Shell are fast enough. But this
 could change some day. Any service that uses the network is potentially
 very slow and shouldn't be called synchronously by an UI thread or by
 another D-Bus service.

 But anyway, the real problem here are dead locks. Having the same
 process/thread/eventloop doing the UI and at the same time providing
 generic services to activities and other services is going to cause dead
 locks.

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