On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:47:47 +0400 Igor Murzov <[email protected]> said:

> 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.

it works like a charm here. across e restarts too.

> -- 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
> 
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