0.19: gui: Make polling in ClientModel asynchronous #17252

1. 
   promag commented at 1:59 PM on October 25, 2019: member

   Backport #17135.

2. gui: Make polling in ClientModel asynchronous

   With this change polling runs in a different thread to prevent
   disturbing the event loop.
   
   Github-Pull: #17135
   Rebased-From: 6b6be41c36e4fe9a74bed50e7f0a06532ab1260b

   d5c36ce0c4
3. fanquake added the label Backport on Oct 25, 2019
4. fanquake added this to the milestone 0.19.0 on Oct 25, 2019
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   laanwj commented at 9:53 AM on October 26, 2019: member

   ACK d5c36ce0c4b92ee7a2b5f256ec5f73cd1c95d21d, it is a clean cherry-pick of 6b6be41c36e4fe9a74bed50e7f0a06532ab1260b.

6. laanwj referenced this in commit 0f6f7a574a on Oct 26, 2019
7. laanwj merged this on Oct 26, 2019
8. laanwj closed this on Oct 26, 2019

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9. kittywhiskers referenced this in commit 669f8be86c on Nov 1, 2021
10. MarcoFalke locked this on Dec 16, 2021

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