On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 10:57 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 03:33 -0500, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> > I'm aware of the dangers - when I worked on Evolution, this caused > > plenty of pain. > > > > However, it's useful in very simple apps where you have e.g. a "Sync" or > > "Connect" button which desensitizes most of the UI while the operation > > is in progress, only updating a progress bar or allowing the user to hit > > "Cancel". That's what I meant by a "program that lends itself to that > > design" above :) > > > > So I dunno. Maybe it's too seductive and should be eliminated as an > > option. > Avoiding this problem is one of the primary reasons of going from a > stateless model (where you can get auth callbacks anytime) to a > statefull model (auth only on mount). However, that problem in gnome-vfs > happens for *all* apps, not only those that "lend itself to that > design", so its a larger problem there. Agree. -- Hans Petter _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list