Re: text UI and threading issues

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On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 13:06 -0400, Samantha N. Bueno wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:41:39PM +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 11:09 -0400, Samantha N. Bueno wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'd like to solicit opinions/have a discussion on an issue Chris and I
> > > noticed with text UI for F19. Some of the new functionality will include
> > > being able to set the source repo and choosing software groups to
> > > install. However, text UI does not lend itself to handling
> > > multithreading as in the GUI.
> > > 
> > > While yum payload transactions or depsolving is happening in the GUI,
> > > the software and source repo spokes are grayed out, forbidding users to
> > > click on them again until the threads have finished running.
> > > Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in the TUI to prevent users from
> > > re-visiting a spoke with threads active, which is quite dangerous.
> > > 
> > > I think the safest way of handling this is to accept the limitations of
> > > text UI and lock the user in the current spoke until running threads are
> > > finished, then return them back to the main hub to proceed with
> > > installation. Not terribly convenient, but again, I think it's safest.
> > > 
> > > Before doing this however, I want to make sure there is general
> > > agreement or that nobody has a better suggestion.
> > Well, I might have a suggestion, but maybe it is a complete nonsense:
> > 
> > What we do now is that we prompt the user to enter a number or 'c'/'q'
> > on the main hub. And we have a mechanism for handling asynchronous
> > events in the text mode (used for exception handling). So maybe we could
> > use it in a way that if an event that changes what is displayed on the
> > main hub appears, it could reprompt the user with an 'r' option added
> > that would refresh the screen. That would allow background changes to be
> > reflected on the main hub even with the "monochromatic line printer
> > mode" we have to implement.
> 
> Hm, not sure how I feel about that since it seems a little clunky, but I
> don't know there is a better solution right now. It's too bad the text
> UI is so limited in situations like this.
>  
> > To prevent users from entering the spoke that has its background thread
> > still running, I would not block the user in the spoke when the values
> > are entered, by when the spoke is entered with a background thread
> > running. That way, the other spokes could be entered while some of the
> > spokes need to be blocked. It would just need to show that the spoke is
> > blocked e.g. by changing it's status to something like
> > "Processing..." (but better).
> 
> I do like that, and I don't think it would be very much work to check if
> there is a background thread running and setting the spoke status to
> "Processing..." (or similar).
> I think more needs to be done than just showing the changed status
> though. In the GUI there's a hard lock (graying out the icons and making
> them unclickable). I think the way to enforce a sort of hard lock in
> the TUI would be to just not allow a user to enter a spoke if a relevant
> background thread is running. What do you think?
I'm completely okay with that.

>  
> > What do you think about that solution? I understand it is much more
> > complicated than blocking user in the spoke she is trying to leave after
> > entering values that trigger background threads, but I think it is not
> > that complicated it would be impossible. The questions are if we have
> > enough time to implement something like that and if the underlying code
> > really supports it that much I think it does.
> 
> No, definitely not impossible. I think setting some sort of "processing"
> status message is doable for F19, though implementing any sort of lock
> as I described above would have to wait for F20.
That would be great!

Thanks,

-- 
Vratislav Podzimek

Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic

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