RE: Panel/Session Deja Vu

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Point.:)
But...
How do you propose that programs like the panel can remember settings and
still maintain the ability to have multiple but different sessions loaded at
the same time? Hmm.... Problem...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel Burrows [SMTP:Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, February 19, 1999 3:35 PM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Cc:	'Matt Martin'; gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: Panel/Session Deja Vu
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 01:54:48PM -0800, Fox, Kevin M was heard to say:
> > Well, the problem is that there are still bugs in gnome that causes it
> to
> > crash. If it didn't crash then the problem wouldnt exist. Take into
> acount
> > that it is not gnome 1.0 yet and when everything stableizes this problem
> > will no longer exist. 
> 
>   I have yet to see a program that never crashes.  Mistakes happen, no
> matter
> how many years you spend debugging the code.  Part of being robust is to
> deal
> with things going wrong, such as and old instance of the program dying and
> leaving files behind.  I personally think that this (and similar things
> like
> the gmc metadata.lock problem) should be fixed before 1.0, but I'm not
> surprised that the developers are spending more time getting stuff to stop
> crashing. :-)
> 
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