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. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users