On Saturday 03 October 2009 03:41:45 Zero3 wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > On Monday 24 August 2009 17:03:21 Zero3 wrote:
> >> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> >>> On Friday 21 August 2009 20:12:39 Zero3 wrote:
> >>>> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> >>>>> Here's another one:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I accidentally built the installer with the beta branch. The tray icon
> >>>>> worked, but when I uninstalled, and told it to do the survey, the
> >>>>> survey failed (as usual), but control panel hung. Ideas? I think it
> >>>>> might be waiting for firefox to close, but this is very bad behaviour,
> >>>>> as there may be other stuff in firefox?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I don't think this is specific to the beta branch - we wait for firefox
> >>>>> (or whatever browser) to close before closing control panel.
> >>>> Nop, it will not wait for the browser to close. It will exit right after
> >>>> launching:
> >>>>
> >>>> [CODE]
> >>>> If (_DoSurvey)
> >>>> {
> >>>> Run, http://freenetproject.org/uninstall.html, , UseErrorLevel
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> Exit()
> >>>> [/CODE]
> >>>>
> >>>> (The execute-and-wait-for-it-to-finish command is called "RunWait" as
> >>>> opposed to the "Run" used here which will continue right away)
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you sure that freenetuninstaller.exe is running while the control
> >>>> panel hangs?
> >>> I don't know. I do know that control panel hangs until the browser exists.
> >> Odd. Maybe it also considers processes spawned by the uninstaller as
> >> part of the uninstaller itself, and does not return control to the
> >> control panel until all of these have terminated. Would make sense, as
> >> uninstallers often continue in other processes than the originally
> >> executed one (the wininstaller uninstaller included).
> >>
> >> Nevertheless, this is a design choice by Microsoft. If they want to
> >> freeze out the user while any part of an uninstaller is running, I
> >> shouldn't try to (and probably can't) get around it.
> >
> > There must be a way to detach it.
>
> There might be. No idea how much hacking it would take though. IMHO I
> don't think the minor usability issue is worth the hack.
>
> On Vista I am able to close the control panel, although not start a new
> uninstall before the browser is closed.
>
> >> A possible workaround could be to add a message to the survey completion
> >> page simply asking the user to close the window.
> >
> > Unfortunately it's broken atm.
>
> Any update on this? Please at least remove the survey from
> http://freenetproject.org/uninstall.html and replace it with a
> "Temporary out of order" message or something. We are seriously wasting
> people's time right now.
Google might fix it. After all they're a multibillion dollar company whose
services have been used by everyone...
But they haven't, and they've had years!
Is it possible there's something wrong with *how we use google spreadsheets
surveys*, not with google's tools themselves?
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