On Monday, September 12, 2011 11:55 AM, "Anne Wilson"
<cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 Duncan wrote:
>
> By and large, when something goes wrong with plasma, it drops out, then
> restarts, so you could say this is a real effort to deal with the
> problem.
> Having no coding skills whatsoever, I can only guess at what could make a
> plasmoid freeze everything. I imagine that plasmoids that get official
> blessing
> have had some code eye-over, but as you say, plasmoids are relatively
> easy to
> write and distribute, so anything goes, I guess.
>
> You can't safeguard against everything. What, to me, is more important,
> is
> that the author of that plasmoid should be told what is happening. Most
> applications have a contact email address for the author - I don't know
> whether it is true of any plasmoids, but it's certainly not true of all
> of
> them. It should be.
This particular plasmoid was downloaded by clicking the 'Get New
Widgets..' button on the 'Add Widgets' dialog, so I would think it was
as officially-blessed as any other that's available. I think it's more
important that a plasmoid which freezes shouldn't also freeze the whole
desktop.
You can't ensure the quality of plasmoids but surely someone can put a
timeout of some kind in the plasma-desktop code so that calls to
plasmoids don't wait forever for a response.
Tim
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