Re: your mail

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:53:47AM +0900 or thereabouts, Spauldo da Hippie wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Loban Rahman wrote:
> 
> > > implement, but I think it would be logical UI-wise.  Perhaps you could
> > > just have the launcher keep track of the PID of the last program each
> > > button opened, and send a SIGTERM or SIGKILL to it.
> > 
> > No. Because I can also start X programs from a terminal, and what
> > ever solution we use should to be able to kill those programs as well.
> 
> <CTRL>-C takes care of the vast majority of those.
> 
> The way I see it, oftentimes (such as when you accidentally start
> netscape) the program you just started only taked a few seconds to
> start.  Netscape starts in about 2 seconds on my machine.  I wouldn't have
> time to really search for it on the tasklist (I don't believe it shows up
> in the tasklist until it has a window anyway).

Then I rather suspect that either you have a more powerful
computer than you can reasonably expect all GNOME users to have, 
or you have very little running on it at one time. 

I have a K6 with 64megs of RAM. It's the fastest computer I've ever
had. Linux kernel compile times halved when I got it. 

And Netscape just took ten seconds to appear on my screen within
GNOME. Killing that off, I started Mozilla (laden down with debugging as 
it is) which took twenty. Losing that, the GIMP just took (about) seven. 

I _also_ run GNOME on a Cyrix MediaGX (sort of a 586) with 32 megs
of RAM, and I haven't even installed Netscape on that machine. Guess
why... 

That's why I leapt at the suggestion of a "kill this, I didn't mean
to start it!" box for applications launching.

Telsa