KDE system guard

[Frans Englich]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 16:18, Hans Meine wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 18:04, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > and FWIW, i plan to make the "Run Command" dialog it's own process as
> > well so that it doesn't get blocked by it's parent process running amok
> > or disappear when said parent crashes (today that would be kdesktop)
>
> I don't know what to think of that idea - actually I find that that dialog
> takes long enough to show in many situations (esp. high-load ones, when I
> want to issue a "kill <nnnn>" or the like).  I would prefer making the
> parent stable.. ;-p

At somepoint it was talked about threading it, to achieve non-blocking. It 
would hence bring the same advantage as a separate process(AFAICT), while 
being lighter.

Perhaps it is a moot point, and that identified problems do not exist. Also, 
not that adding threading could be free of complications.


Cheers,

		Frans