On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:47:15PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Christian Hammond"> > > > Now, if the functionality of notification-daemon was integrated into some > > other larger part of gnome, a crash would take that all down with it. Not > > as fun. > > Not as fun, but at least it might be obvious: "Oh, *LOOK*, my notification > applet crashed. Yes, restart please." Don't always trust the generic concept > of "modularity == robust". :-) > > (That said, I agree with the dbus activation stuff, and hope we hear from > Ray about his plans soon.) The activation stuff is something that happens now, for free. You never explicitly launch notification-daemon, ever. D-BUS does that. If it crashes, the user will never know, because the next notification will just bring it back up again. Christian -- Christian Hammond <> The Galago Project chipx86 gnupdate org <> http://galago.sourceforge.net/ A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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