Re: a patch for tasklist segfaulting...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Alan Cox <alan redhat com> writes:

> > All sorts of things have changed, but I am inclined to blame it on the
> > deskguide. Trying to restart X results in the panel respawning, with the
> > bloody deskguide in it with the same settings that somehow triggered the
> > crash. This is not fun. I have not bugzilla'd it because I can't prove
> > it's the deskguide. 
> 
> One (bad but workable) way to handle this for 1.4 other than turning them
> back into apps as they should be would be making the panel offer you
> a chance to revert to default as well as the bug buddy reporter
> 

I would support turning these applets back into exe instead of shlib
applets, if George and Jacob want to do that. Having them in the panel
proces sis turning out to be a serious stability issue for GNOME 1.4
(as, I might add, George predicted it would).

 - Maciej