agreed.
even raster has a good reason for the nag box, cedric's idea sounds reasonable.
we can remember "i know" thing and show the nag again when e crashes.

btw, i haven't seen the white box even my e17 crashed a lot recently.
what happended?

Daniel Juyung Seo (SeoZ)

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:24:35 +0300 (EEST) Robert Krambovitis 
>> <rob...@split.gr>
>> said:
>>> > From: "Carsten Haitzler"
>>> > To: "Enlightenment users discussion & support"
>>> > <enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Robert Krambovitis"
>>> > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:39:24 AM
>>> > Subject: Re: [e-users] modules nag...
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:45:20 +0300 (EEST) Robert Krambovitis
>>> > said:
>>> >
>>> > > You added a nag about unofficial modules ?
>>> > > And the list is hard coded ?!
>>> > >
>>> > > Seriously ?
>>> >
>>> > yup.
>>> >
>>> > > Are you planning on adding a "don't nag about these modules"
>>> > > configuration or
>>> > > whitelist file ? Or at least a way to disable the nag at E start ?
>>> > > or even an "acknowledge, don't tell me again about these modules"
>>> > > button ?
>>> >
>>> > not planning on adding any way to disable it. i'm tired of "when i
>>> > use places
>>> > module e crashes" and "i get random segvs all day - help me" (in the
>>> > end
>>> > convincing them to unload enagage fixed the crashes) etc.
>>> >
>>> > we are doing a release here. trying to fix bugs that are E bugs. not
>>> > the bugs
>>> > of random module X. e-modules-extra modules are "random modules" as
>>> > they mostly
>>> > just have no maintenance.
>>> >
>>> > you're using code from svn and that code is intended to be going
>>> > through QA
>>> > testing and i am encouraging thq QA testing to stop wasting peoples
>>> > time.
>>> >
>>> > be happy i simply didn't just deny the ability to load ANY modules
>>> > other than
>>> > in the whitelist. you still can. you just get a nag. in the same way
>>> > us devs
>>> > have been nagged day after day, week after week, month after month
>>> > about
>>> > modules we don't maintain and we don't care about. i'm very well
>>> > tried of
>>> > saying "do you have any modules loaded not shipped with e?" and then
>>> > people
>>> > sanying no and they end up having these extra modules loaded anyway
>>> > after 5 or
>>> > 10 minutes of back and forth.
>>>
>>> Sure, I get the reason you did it,
>>> but don't you think it's a bit of a kick in the nuts for everyone else,
>>> that doesn't report bugs, just want to use enlightenment on their desktop ?
>>> And all of a sudden, they get "reprimanded" for wanting to see the weather 
>>> or
>>> cpu usage ?
>>
>> you are using a project direct from its svn development repository... it's 
>> FAR
>> better treatment than you get from just about any project's direct
>> head/trunk/master development branch. we are trying to do QA. you can just as
>> well not update and be happy.
>
> Or he can update again. I really thing having this popup always there
> is rude. So now, if you say "I know" E17 will remember that list of
> module and not barf about it again. But if you get a crash, the white
> box will tell you to first retry without any module. I think it's a
> way better treatment than before.
> --
> Cedric BAIL
>
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