Bug report #6192

Globe plugin brings QGIS to its knees

Added by Jonathan Moules over 12 years ago. Updated over 11 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:High
Assignee:Pirmin Kalberer
Category:C++ plugins/Globe
Affected QGIS version:master Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:15506

Description

If I enable this plugin, even if every other plugin is disabled and this plugin is doing nothing, it will bring QGIS to its knees.
For example:
Completely new QGIS install (1.8.0.1). I enable this plug and notice that the entire interface is now really sluggish. I go to the normal "add raster" button and when I select a folder notice that it takes several seconds for the interface to react and select it.
I can't actually see a globe or anything, all I see is a little mini-bar thing that starts in the wrong part, so not even look at the globe-part of the plugin.
Even just turning QGIS into a window and moving that window around now ends up using 100% of one core of my CPU for long enough that I assume its crashed!

I really don't think this plugin is in a state where it can be being distributed with the main QGIS install (I realise its off by default).

globe-plugin_buttons.png (662 KB) Larry Shaffer, 2012-12-31 04:49 PM

Associated revisions

Revision a3be02a4
Added by Pirmin Kalberer over 11 years ago

New globe navigation controls (partially fixes #6192)

History

#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 12 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback
  • Priority changed from Severe/Regression to High

isn't this a duplicate of #4053?

I changed the priority because "blockers" is used to tag regressions. This (unfortunately) is a known issue.

#2 Updated by Jonathan Moules over 12 years ago

It doesn't crash QGIS (per #4053), just makes the entire QGIS interface go /incredibly/ slowly despite not actually doing anything.

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 12 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Open
  • Target version set to Version 2.0.0

#4 Updated by Pirmin Kalberer about 12 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - High Priority

#5 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 12 years ago

  • Priority changed from High to Severe/Regression

As I suggested a few days ago in the dev mailing list, I think that we should not ship new, not working features in any qgis release and in this cases we should tag this issue as blockers.

#6 Updated by Jonathan Moules almost 12 years ago

I'm not on the dev list, but I certainly agree that non-working or alpha-grade features shouldn't be be in the "stable" releases. I guess the other option than "blocker" is to remove the feature from main until its stable and ready.

#7 Updated by Larry Shaffer almost 12 years ago

Hi,

Just recently finally got this plugin working under Mac (latest master branch). I concur, while the plugin is very cool, and sometimes works, it is very much in an alpha state, IMHO.

I think it needs a bunch of love before it should ship with a stable release, or have a dialog that states it is a beta feature (not unheard of in a stable release).

On Mac, the control buttons are not useable (see globe-plugin_buttons.png), though the CPU usage doesn't seem too bad on an Intel i7 processor.

#8 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 11 years ago

  • Affected QGIS version changed from 1.8.0 to master
  • Target version changed from Future Release - High Priority to Version 2.0.0
  • Operating System deleted (windows xp)

On QGIS master (ubuntu nightly build repo) the globe seg faults the program. How to reproduce

open the globe, close it and open the globe settings, play around, click ok.

#9 Updated by Mathieu Pellerin - nIRV over 11 years ago

  • Priority changed from Severe/Regression to High

Lowering priority to high as the globe plugin was never that stable, and as such shouldn't be considered as a complete feature that has regressed.

Please change back if you don't agree with the rational :)

#10 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 11 years ago

Mathieu Pellerin - nIRV wrote:

Lowering priority to high as the globe plugin was never that stable, and as such shouldn't be considered as a complete feature that has regressed.

Please change back if you don't agree with the rational :)

I can agree, but then it should be specified (in plugin manager?) very clearly that is unstable or just don't ship it at all on platforms where does not work.

#11 Updated by Borys Jurgiel over 11 years ago

Good idea, tommorow I'll introduce the "experimental" tag also for c++ plugins. It's clearly visible in the new manager.

#12 Updated by Matthias Kuhn over 11 years ago

+1 for downgrade + experimental tag

Larry Shaffer wrote:

On Mac, the control buttons are not useable (see globe-plugin_buttons.png), though the CPU usage doesn't seem too bad on an Intel i7 processor.

Happened here on linux when running from the build directory. I've got a patch ready which fixes running from the build dir.

#13 Updated by Borys Jurgiel over 11 years ago

Ok, it's now marked experimental in 3ce742d70c93

#14 Updated by Pirmin Kalberer over 11 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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