containing plasmoid crashes

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 13:07:59 CEST 2009


On Sunday 26 July 2009, David Baron wrote:
> A similar problem has seemingly been solved, by .... Google. Since google's
> browser is opensource, one might take a look.
>
> Every one of those tabs, plugin processes, etc., is a separate process,
> shows up on top as such. I have an upload going on now, apparently in a
> chrome process initiated from a website. No browser is showing at
> all--closed it.

how it works the linux version? i suppose tabs are xembedded separate 
windows? that would really not be acceptable for plasma

> Their approach is still very beta, has some interesting problems, but it
> works. We would probably want to use dbus (I do not know whether they do).
>
> Example of their success: Clicking a link in kmail, for example, will spawn
> that as a tab in an existing chrome browser if one is running. Caveat--if
> one died and is still an existing process, one must kill it before chrome
> will work correctly. Beta.
>
> > Wow! Well, sounds like you've got a tough job to do, but I'm sure you'll
> > find a way to solve this issue, as always. May you have a happy hacking
> > and a nice day!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bogdan
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > On 7/26/09, Bogdan Bivolaru <bogdan.bivolaru at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Oh, well, there is an intense debate on how to accomplish this...
> > > > http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=45255&start=30
> > > >
> > > > Oh everyone brings their pet issue to the table: performance issues,
> > > > ease
> > >
> > > of
> > >
> > > > development, stability. I hope you plasma hackers will find the
> > > > middle
> > >
> > > ..and you lose the single scene, so no more containments, the desktop
> > > becomes a bunch of little windows and the pnel is simply not possible
> > > to do anymore
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Marco Martin
> > >
> > > > ground to keep everyone happy.
> > > >
> > > > Bogdan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Bogdan Bivolaru <
> > >
> > > bogdan.bivolaru at gmail.com
> > >
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >>
> > > >> Well, I haven't really thought about a how-to before writing that
> > >
> > > mail...
> > >
> > > >> I
> > > >> was expecting it to work just as for catching crashes with Dr.
> > > >> Krash.
> > > >>
> > > >> But it turns out that there is a solution on Plasma wishlist:
> > > >> [Plasma] Plasmoids as separate processes
> > > >>
> > > >> So I voted for it and I hope someone will find the time to do it.
> > > >> I guess that also means I should pay more attention to KDE
> > > >> Brainstorm, well...
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Have fun hacking,
> > > >> Bogdan
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > >>> On Saturday 25 July 2009, Bogdan Bivolaru wrote:
> > > >>> > I'm writing to you because I'd like to make a suggestion to make
> > > >>> > a containment for errors around each plasmoid, so that when one
> > >
> > > crashes,
> > >
> > > >>> it
> > > >>>
> > > >>> > doesn't take the whole plasma environment with it.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> and how do you suggest this is accomplished, exactly?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> --
> > > >>> Aaron J. Seigo
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