Search provider freezes gnome-shell on search request.

[tioteath]

Looks like the search provider applies some global lock when used. Gnome shell freezes for about 5 seconds.
Steps to reproduce:

• Get a lot of contracts (~1000)
• Enable search provider in extension preferences
• Try to search something in overview mode

gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.14.2

[jgeerds]

same here

[p91paul]

@muffinmad Have you any way of being notified by pidgin about modifications to the contact list? I suspect this bug is caused by the fact that you get the list of contacts from pidgin every time the search plugin is called. A cache should solve the issue, but contacts/statuses may stale if there is no way to asyncronously get modifications as they happen.

Another solution could be to get them with a timer every few seconds/minutes, but it is to be tested to not introduce micro-freezes of the whole shell. I have no idea if the gs API offers a way to create a background thread.

[jgeerds]

This should work: https://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/dev2.x.y/html/blist-signals.html#buddy-added

Jascha Geerds
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[muffinmad]

Yes, blist-signals is the right way.

[brianjmurrell]

But it doesn't solve the issue of blocking gnome-shell for the initial load of contacts, does it?