Re: Will Gnome _EVER_ be stable?

["Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur linuxbox nu>]

No, GNOME has never self destructed on me.  Even in the "October GNOME"
days, which was over a year ago, I have never had GNOME "self-destruct"
in the way you are describing.  

Here is my thought:  If you disk filled up, how are you supposed to
assume an application would be able to save its data?  I don't really
think this is GNOME's problem, but rather the fact that you need a
bigger hard drive.


On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 19:27, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:18:56PM -0500, Arthur H.  Johnson II wrote:
> >> I have absolutely no issues with the Woody GNOME packages.  I'm
> >> running Evolution, Galeon, with the standard gnome packages and I have
> >> no problems.
> >>
> >
> > So your Gnome environemt has never self destructed on you?
> 
> I know mine (Debian Woody, latest GNOME 1.4 packages) has never "self
> destructed."  From what people are saying, it only happens when your
> partition is full?  That might explain why mine hasn't ever - last runaway
> process I had only managed to fillup half the disk (rather big disk) before
> I noticed, killed it off, and deleted the file it filled up.
> 
> Assuming that the problem is only the disk filling up, what solution could
> there be?  There is no way to save settings if there is no disk space, end
> of story.  Perhaps there should be more safe guards against deleting
> settings if new data can't be stored?  I.e., write the new, temporary
> settings file, then "rename" it to the real config file's name?
> 
> Or do I have no idea what I'm talking about in regards to settings right
> now?  ~,^
> 
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