On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:10:06 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:05:51 +1030 Simon Lees <[email protected]> said: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'll make a brief comment on this not that it means much because i don't > > have the time to implement my soln and you are the ones that would have to > > deal with it. At work where i have a old OS on a distro i don't package for > > or care about i build from source and use the forcasts and photo's module, > > i haven't looked at the code for either so i have no idea what state they > > are in but they both work for me on multiple systems so oneday i may > > consider packaging them. I am yet to see the current waring as i can't > > upgrade atm but if it was a once off with a checkbox saying don't show > > it is. ?! "I know" button doesn't help. The warning is still shown every time. If users had the opportunity to turn it off permanently, no one would ever complain about it. -- Igor > > again i would be happy enough if it came up every time like some of the > > compositing errors i would not be, and i wouldn't package these modules in > > a official repository. > > i'd suggest not packaging them anyway. > > > My prefered solution which probably isn't yours as it is slightly more work > > for you would be to only show this popup in the segfault recovery popup if > > 3rd party modules are loaded. "Something bad has happened, Enlightenment > > people don't read it - or only a few do. they just try and get rid of it > asap. :) it also hapens to tell you your e is tainted with 3rd party modules > here, but it tells u at the time the module is loaded too so you know which > one > it is. > > > has crashed. You are running 3rd Party modules this may be the cause". I > > would also get enlightenment to create a "diagnostics file" for debugging > > which would contain a list of loaded modules the compositor in use, > > this becomes way too invovled as the crash dialog is insanely thin and minimal > not even using efl... it goes to x directly just in case its a core bug in efl > somewhere. it knows very little about e at that point and giving it all this > data is a huge amount of work and thats why we warn in advance - same way the > kernel does in its output (dmesg etc.) when tainting it with proprietary > modules. > > > graphics driver potentially the screen layout and any other info that can > > be gathered at startup and make it compolsory for bug reports to be > > accompanied by this file. This would give you more useful info that a > > inexperienced user may not be able to pin down but would be more effort to > > start up. > > > > Cheers, > > Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
