On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:58 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: > We're testing patches to Presence Service to not start salut (or stop > it) for a while to give gabble a chance to connect to the schoolserver. > > However, Daf came across what was a very minor problem which becomes > more serious in light of this change. > > Many activities are calling PS get_preferred_connection() to interact > directly with the appropriate Telepathy Connection Manager, which was > required in the past before we expanded Presence Service's management of > setting up channels for activities. > > However, during the period when we stop salut to let gabble try to > connect, this call fails as there is no running plugin in PS. If an > activity is launched during this time (and there's no particular UI to > show this other than no buddies in mesh view) and it makes this call in > __init__ as most of them do, then it will crash with a gray screen. > > This affects: Calculate, Chat, Pippy, Record, Web and Write (of the > activities we bundle) and potentially other non-bundled activities.
Ouch... Seems like this is something we're going to have to fix pretty quickly no matter what. > > Our options are: > > (a) Touch all these activities now and port them to the newer cleaner > API offered by PS/Sugar How big are the diffs? Does this simplify the code? > (b) Don't do #6299 for Update.1, but do it and (a) for Update1.1 This would be pretty much immediately, anyway. > (c) Find some way for the call to get_preferred_connection to fail > gracefully (We can't think of one so far) > (d) Make a UI change to let the children know not to launch activities > during this time period Let me ask a different question: what happens to activities already running which are running shared? Are they going to fail? Presumably, yes.... - Jim > (e) ??? > > Morgan > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel