Re: a patch for tasklist segfaulting...

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> What sort of behaviour causes the deskguide/tasklist problems? I don't use
> the tasklist, but I've heard a lot of unhappy talk about the deskguide...
> It's always surprised me, as I don't have any stability problems at all
> (with regards to the deskguide at least).

It just blows up at random. This happens with gnome 1.2 as well but there
its not fatal to the panel so its a minor irritation.

The deskguide drawing the display stuff causes several problems

1.	Its very demanding on CPU for a slow box
2.	It eats memory on small boxes
3.	Its behaviour on an xdm session on an xterminal is horrible since it
	causes zillions of remote pixel lookups

Alan