On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:14:41 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:43:18 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:35:23 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com>
> > said:
> >
> > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:01:16 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> > > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > such bugs should get fixed. aqpps return 0 when they exited
> > > > cleanly with no error. anything else is an error. enlightenment,
> > > > unlike everyone else, doesn;t ignore it. it bothers you. this
> > > > solves the "why the hell did that window just vanish?" question.
> > > > mind you - e could do a much better ui than pop up a dialog. e
> > > > should really have a proper notification queue/log/stack thing at
> > > > some point. will worry about that for e18.
> > >
> > > Now you tell me. :-P
> >
> > the dialog is ok for now. better than not knowing what happened to
> > the app. apps that dont exit with a 0 exit code are saying "i had an
> > error". i'd bet there are quite a few that dont do this right. this
> > is a good opportunity to file bug reports with those apps so they
> > clean up their act. they are just like functions that do this:
> >
> > int dothing(int blah) {
> > // do thing here
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > it's a bug. we shouldnt be hiding bugs. we should be bringing them
> > out and passing them to the right place to be fixed - in this case
> > the apps in question. :)
> >
> > just saying that we could have a less intrusive way of
> > logging/notifying the user than a dialog they have to dismiss in the
> > middle of their screen. :)
>
> I meant "now you tell me after I wrote that dialog years ago according
> to your desires at the time". lol
thats what i said - dialog is fine. we have no alternative mechanism right now.
we'd need a nice log + notification thing. we probably want one in the end
anyway. but what you did was just fine.
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