Matthew Toseland skrev:
> 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?
No matter what, we are completely wasting people's time by leaving it as
it is. Please, please, remove it.
- Zero3
