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* not so instant apply
@ 2007-04-13 14:49 Andrew Cagney
  2007-04-16 14:29 ` Sami Wagiaalla
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Cagney @ 2007-04-13 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: frysk

Noticed this yesterday.

The setup-assistant appears to doing an instant apply - attaching to and 
hanging the processes - before the user has indicated that they are 
finished.  Several problems I can identify here:

- when re-opening a session, processes are being attached _before_ the 
user has confirmed the choice
As I pointed out in another thread, the operation and consequence here 
is non-trivial, so the user needs to be given the chance to confirm the 
selected processes before going further.  The problem/consequence is 
easily seen by: create a "bash session"; quit frysk; from bash start 
frysk in the _forground_; open the "bash session" bringing up the 
process-picker; try backgrounding frysk

- instant apply works when there is instant visual feedback
Since the monitor/debugger is not yet displayed (and no please don't 
start displaying it), there is no visual feedback, and no reason for the 
apply.

comments,
Andrew

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* Re: not so instant apply
  2007-04-13 14:49 not so instant apply Andrew Cagney
@ 2007-04-16 14:29 ` Sami Wagiaalla
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sami Wagiaalla @ 2007-04-16 14:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Cagney; +Cc: frysk

I opened http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4374
Will fix this soon.


Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Noticed this yesterday.
>
> The setup-assistant appears to doing an instant apply - attaching to 
> and hanging the processes - before the user has indicated that they 
> are finished.  Several problems I can identify here:
>
> - when re-opening a session, processes are being attached _before_ the 
> user has confirmed the choice
> As I pointed out in another thread, the operation and consequence here 
> is non-trivial, so the user needs to be given the chance to confirm 
> the selected processes before going further.  The problem/consequence 
> is easily seen by: create a "bash session"; quit frysk; from bash 
> start frysk in the _forground_; open the "bash session" bringing up 
> the process-picker; try backgrounding frysk
>
> - instant apply works when there is instant visual feedback
> Since the monitor/debugger is not yet displayed (and no please don't 
> start displaying it), there is no visual feedback, and no reason for 
> the apply.
>
> comments,
> Andrew
>

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