nspluginviewer priority on newer linux kernel

[Thiago Macieira]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> That would require a change to the NSPlugin API. The plugins
>> themselves have to voluntarily stop what they are doing in a decent
>> manner.
>
>So, IIUC, Konqueror asks the plugin to stop and then waits for it to
>voluntary stop.  This would still be a large improvement.

s/asks/would ask/

And you conveniently skipped the "would require a change to the NSPlugin 
API". That is not an API we control in KDE -- it has existed for over 10 
years and was published by Netscape (now Mozilla, I guess). And even if 
we did change the API, existing plugins wouldn't take benefit from the 
new API until a new release.

>> Imagine you have a file-uploader plugin and you're uploading a large
>> file over a slow connection. You want to keep working while it
>> uploads, so you want the plugin to keep running in the background,
>> while you switch to other tabs and other programs.
>
>Yes, you want to do that, but what you don't want is user access to the
>window that currently has focus to be blocked.  That is the problem that
>needs to be solved.  When you click the mouse and nothing happens, that
>is an issue.

Agreed.

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