On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 15:33 +0100, Jakub Filak wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 of January 2015 14:54:51 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 14:48 +0100, Jakub Filak wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 14 of January 2015 14:19:44 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 14:09 +0100, Jakub Filak wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday 14 of January 2015 12:06:21 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > > > None of the actions we're supposed to be taking after the main loop
> > > > > > should be necessary at that point in time. Let GTK+ handle that as
> > > > > > it
> > > > > > should by exiting if the SIGTERM signal is sent.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can you please point me to some documentation dealing with the signals
> > > > > and
> > > > > GTK+?
> > > > 
> > > > There's no documentation, there's source code though. It doesn't handle
> > > > SIGTERM especially, so would just "terminate" if sent SIGTERM.
> > > > 
> > > > > I applied your patch, started abrt-applet, sent SIGTERM to it and the
> > > > > process was "Terminated" but it should gracefully exit.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I use SIGTERM to test the applet's behaviour when Desktop is
> > > > > terminating.
> > > > 
> > > > What would abrt-applet do on exit that's required to be done on exit?
> > > 
> > > abrt-applet notifies a user about problems that occurred while his system
> > > was not running a desktop session. The applet has a list where it stores
> > > the seen problem IDs and the applet sends a notification for all
> > > not-yet-seen problems at start-up. The seen list must be updated before
> > > the applet exits because of unclear legacy reasons I am not able to
> > > recollect and are possibly gone, but I'm not sure and I'd rather leave it
> > > as it is.
> > 
> > Keeping a list of seen items seems like the sort of thing that the
> > application crashing/going away suddenly shouldn't affect. 
> 
> See my comment : 
> https://github.com/abrt/abrt/blob/master/src/applet/applet.c#L1828
> 
> > Why don't we
> > remove it now, and see whether it causes any problems instead?
> 
> OK, is there any other reason to remove it except you consider that code as 
> pointless?
> 
> Please don't get me wrong. I really appreciate your efforts. I just have a 
> different style of work :)

So we write code for the 0.3% cases? Yes, we do have different styles of
work indeed...

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