On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:43:50PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:29:40PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Utterly. On multihead boxes I've seen it take 30% of the total CPU time > > and 20% of the network bandwidth. Its eeeeevil because it should be a > > service daemon so it runs *ONCE* and it should chat over dbus or something > > to the display which -should-not-flash- - it's very bad UI design (movement > > out of the user focus area is distracting) and sucks resources. > > It also gets 'stuck' sometimes, making the user believe that everything > is up to date, whilst running up2date -l, or yum will find packages > that need updating. I've also seen it claim updates are available > that running up2date on the command line can't find. *boggle* > file a bug on any cases like that you see, I haven't seen one in ages. > The whole thing needs a bullet in its head imo. > I'll buy the gun, the bullets, and the beer if I get to shoot it. > > If someone could have that fixed and in testing tomorrow that would be > > fantastic ;) > > Wouldn't it be great ? They'd be my fedora hero-of-the-day. Not likely to happen. If it were my call, the rhn-applet wouldn't be in Fedora at all (or at least, not on by default). But I don't see anyone wanting to fix it and not just replace it. Maybe for fc4... Adrian The unfortunate sap who got handed the rhn-applet to maintain...
