On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:35:23 +1000 David Seikel <[email protected]> said:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:01:16 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <[email protected]> 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. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
