[Qt-creator] QtCreator 3.0.84 - GUI hangs when loading large project

[Daniel Teske]

Am Thursday, 24. April 2014, 10:00:12 schrieb Liebe Markus (RtP2/TEF72):
> Hi there,
> 
> 
> we have a quite large project tree here - consisting of one main .pro file
> which then contains several subdir projects and so on (around 400 .pro
> files).
> 
> (Btw. we are using OpenSuSE 13.1.)
> 
> 
> The problem that we are facing is that when loading our project, the GUI of
> QtCreator freezes until the project has been loaded. Because of the size
> of the project you have to stare for about a minute or two on a
> non-responsive screen. This leads to the wrong thinking that Creator has
> crashed - and several fellow developers just kill the app and try again.
> 
> 
> You can try this for yourself when loading the QtCreator sources: QtCreator
> is unresponsive as long as the project is beeing loaded.
> 
> 
> Is this a known issue? I already skimmed the issues in the bug tracker and
> found none relating to this.
Yes. There's rom for improvement there, feel free to create a bug report. It's 
a rather big task to do that.

daniel