Indeed, the need for this has been expressed in a long forgotten ticket. I do think it's something we should support in some fashion, and something worth a look for 9.1. More comments on the ticket: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1166#comment:8 (The "in the ring" activities mentioned are now "in the top edge of the frame".)
- Eben On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Today I was testing Paing in Joyride and managed to hung it in a > way that hogs the CPU. > > There seems to be no way to kill such an activity from Sugar. > Stop just tries to close the X window, which is ineffective in > such cases. > > We'd need to fire a timer to check if the activity is still there > after a few seconds and, in that case, send a SIGKILL. A safer > design would pop a Wait/Force Quit window before proceeding. > > -- > \___/ Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ > _| X | Sugar Labs Team - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ > \|_O_| "It's an education project, not a laptop project!" >
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