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It's a plasmoid from kdelook, so not really a main kde problem, *EXCEPT*<br>
for the poor plasma design choice of running all of plasma single-<br>
threaded, so a single misbehaving plasmoid can either freeze or crash the<br>
entire plasma-desktop. That *DESPITE* the fact that the trend these days<br>
is to have separate sandboxed processes for everything, see chrome/<br>
chromium, and firefox is headed that way -- but still the quite new<br>
plasma just /had/ to be designed so a single misbehaving plasmoid would<br>
kill it, even tho they were deliberately making it extensible and<br>
inviting people of all sorts of skill levels to design plasmoids for it,<br>
the VERY SAME reason chrome/chromium did the sandboxed-process thing and<br>
firefox is headed that way! They had the opportunity to design plasma<br>
for robustness in that regard from the very start, but didn't. Now they<br>
have backward compatibility issues to worry about if they try to fix the<br>
problem. Oh, well... <shrug><br></blockquote><div><br>And the answer is:<br><a href="http://www.freehackers.org/thomas/2009/11/10/wonders-from-a-kde-fan-and-developer-about-some-kde-design-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-7507">http://www.freehackers.org/thomas/2009/11/10/wonders-from-a-kde-fan-and-developer-about-some-kde-design-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-7507</a> <br>
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