Re: Force Quit button

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie> writes:

> 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.

So how would you add it?  Add to Panel->Button?  I think the "Add to
Panel" is currently pretty crowded, and would personally like to see it
shrink if possible.

> 	I'm planning on making this available through Ctrl-Alt-Delete - more on
> that later ...

What's the plan, here?  We're impatient! (-:

Thanks,
-Jonathan