On 10/27/2010 10:12 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> 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.
>
Since there is no configuration option to suppress the output how
difficult would it be for me to simply patch it out of E for now? Any
tips on where to look in the code base?
Thanks,
Tex.
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