Your message dated Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:29:36 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#614166: /usr/bin/boincmgr: window-close button doesn't
work and misleading advice from "exit boinc mgr"
has caused the Debian Bug report #614166,
regarding /usr/bin/boincmgr: window-close button doesn't work and misleading
advice from "exit boinc mgr"
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Package: boinc-manager
Version: 6.12.14+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/boincmgr
The previous version of the boinc-manager (6.10.x) worked exactly as
one would expect: hitting the window close button would exit the
boinc manager, but boinc tasks and scheduling would continue as normal
in the background.
However the most recent update to boinc-manager (6.12.x) has very odd
behavior: hitting window-close simply iconifies the window, but
otherwise leaves the boinc-manager running. This is bad, not only
because it's confusing for the user, but because the boinc-manager has
some unpleasant side-effects while it's running, such as very frequent
network activity (I don't know what it's actually doing, but there's
network activity about once a second due to the boinc-manager, maybe
some sort of keep-alive...).
It's possible to _really_ exit the new versio of the boinc-manager by
selecting "Exit BOINC Manager" from the "File" menu. however this
pops up a scary sounding dialogue box that implies boinc will
basically stop working if you exit. As far as I can figure, this
isn't true -- in the past, boinc scheduling and task worked absolutely
fine without the boinc-manager running, and this appears to still be
true with the new version. Thus this dialogue box is misleading;
however I suspect many users will be scared by what it says, and opt
not to exit the boinc-manager out of confusion.
To fix these problems, I'd suggest that the boinc-manager's behavior
should be restored to that of the previous version:
1) Since the boinc-manager is not necessary for boinc operation, the
window close button should exit the boinc-manager application, as
the user expexts.
2) The misleading dialogue box should be removed or at least
reworded to reflect the way things actually work.
Thanks,
-Miles
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages boinc-manager depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6-20110216-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.0-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.4-2 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.6-20110216-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.10.1-3+b1 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.10.1-3+b1 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
Versions of packages boinc-manager recommends:
ii boinc-client 6.12.14+dfsg-1 core client for the BOINC distribu
ii ia32-libs 20110117 ia32 shared libraries for use on a
Versions of packages boinc-manager suggests:
ii libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10-4 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libxt6 1:1.0.9-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
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Hello Miles,
On 02/20/2011 02:49 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> The previous version of the boinc-manager (6.10.x) worked exactly as
> one would expect: hitting the window close button would exit the
> boinc manager, but boinc tasks and scheduling would continue as normal
> in the background.
I had informed upstream about an earlier complaint on this. At least with
6.12.15 (new in unstable) there is an additional dialog
upon the selection of "exit" that allows to leave the tasks running. It is not
ultimately nice, I tend agree, but, well, I can
live with it, upstream knows about it and any alternative leaves reason to be
unhappy, too.
I am closing this somehwat barely closeable issue.
Best,
Steffen
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