Re: tasklist applet, shared library version.

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico helixcode com>]

George <jirka 5z com> writes:

> Just committed to HEAD a hack that will ask the user if he wants to reload an
> applet that has quit without removing itself from the panel properly or being
> removed from the panel.

Do not do that!  That just gives people an excuse to accept buggy code.

Applets should not crash.

>From the user's standpoint, it is very annoying to see something
flicker away and back and possibly resume in a state that does not
match whatever he was doing.  It is like watching TV, having a short
power outage, and have the TV turn itself back on in its default
channel.

  Federico