On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:43:18 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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. :)

I meant "now you tell me after I wrote that dialog years ago according
to your desires at the time".  lol

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