Re: Force Quit button
- From: Alan <alan ufies org>
- To: Desktop Devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Force Quit button
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:39:18 -0700
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:11:45PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 17:01, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie> writes:
> >
> > > Hey,
> > > I've just added a "Force Quit" button to gnome-panel HEAD[1]. Its
> > > basically just a nicer version of an xkill launcher.
> >
> > Ugh. That doesn't seem so nice. If you have a runaway process, surely
> > gnome-system-monitor is the way to go. Having a "Possibly but not
> > necessarily kill broken legacy Apps" on the desktop seems like a bad
> > idea.
>
> Yeah, I don't particularily like it either. That's why I haven't put it
> in the Actions menu or anything silly like that ... its just a button
> you can add to the panel.
IIRC Metacity already has a "app has not responded" dialoge that as
mentioned before, may or may not kill an app or separate it from the X
server. Maybe give the option in that dialoge of "force kill" (running
the xkill) as well as "nicely kill" (what it does now)?
alan
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