On Plasmate's previewer

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On March 6, 2010, Yuen Hoe Lim wrote:
> > meh, that sounds ugly.
> > maybe you can use crash detection to not autoload the preview if
> > plasmate crashed last time. :)  ..but since plasmate doesn't
> > auto-restart on crash like plasma does I'm not sure how much effort
> > that'd take.
> 
> A possible easy though 'hackish' way to do this would be to get Plasmate to
> set some sort of (file-based?) flag on successful quit. If Plasmate crashes
> or otherwise exits abnormally the flag would not be set, so at next startup
> we know and can be careful about showing the previewer. Think this would
> work?

it could work quite nicely .... we used to do similar things in kicker :)

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