Re: a patch for tasklist segfaulting...

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 11 Mar 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> 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).

urg, deskguide is still its own application and i'm not likely to accept
a patch that makes it its own shlib in the near future. we've had several
discussions on that already.

> 
>  - Maciej
> 

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ciaoTJ