Re: Panel applets going AWOL

In <[email protected]>
"Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2008/4/27 Tony Houghton <[email protected]>:
> > Almost every time I boot up I seem to have to replace one or more
> > panel applets which have gone missing since last time I used the
> > computer. Usually it's DevTray, but other applets aren't immune.
> > One one occasion every single applet had gone missing and I was
> > left with just the static icons.
> [...]
> >  A second option would be to pop up a dialog: "xyz has exited
> > abnormally. [Restart it now] [Restart it at next session] [Don't
> > restart it]" (may need some work on the wording). I think that's
> > the better plan, but it does have a potential problem that at
> > shutdown it could result in dialogs flashing up which the user
> > doesn't have time to read before the desktop disappears. It might
> > be possible to avoid that by delaying the appearance of the dialog
> > with g_idle_add() and/or even g_timeout_add().
> 
> Agreed; only the user should be able to remove an applet from the
> panel, no matter what the applet does.
> 
> How about: when you drop an applet on the panel you just see the
> normal icon, with an option / dialog box asking if you'd like to run
> it. When it exits, it turns back
> into a normal icon (and you can just start it again).

That would still require user intervention to restart the applets that
have gone wrong though wouldn't it?

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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

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