On Monday 12 Sep 2011 Kevin Krammer wrote:
Either I'm misunderstanding you, or that is unbelievable. From the
earliest days of basic coding you could set a timer so that if no
response was obtained by then the loop exited. Are you saying that 30
years on this is not possible?
Ah, but
On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Duncan wrote:
Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:35:32 +0100 as excerpted:
I take your point, but in truth, any well-written piece of code should
be able to exit gracefully if something fails. If it can't, I'd rather
not run it at all.
You're absolutely
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 Duncan wrote:
Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:35:32 +0100 as excerpted:
I take your point, but in truth, any well-written piece of code should
be able to exit gracefully if something fails. If it can't, I'd rather
not run it at all.
You're absolutely
Tim Edwards writes:
This particular plasmoid was downloaded by clicking the 'Get New
Widgets..' button on the 'Add Widgets' dialog, so I would think it was
as officially-blessed as any other that's available.
No, I believe those that already come with KDE are more official, and
better tested.
On Monday 12 Sep 2011 Alex Schuster wrote:
I don't know it this is possible for a single-threaded application, I
assume the answer is no. I do not think there is some sort of supervisor
that calls and controls the individual plasmoids. When a plasmoid's code
being executed, and that goes in an
On Monday, 2011-09-12, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 12 Sep 2011 Alex Schuster wrote:
I don't know it this is possible for a single-threaded application, I
assume the answer is no. I do not think there is some sort of supervisor
that calls and controls the individual plasmoids. When a
Tim Edwards writes:
I'm running Opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6 on a Netbook. When I plug the
netbook in to an external monitor/TV after a few minutes the KDE panel
(including all menus, icons, clock etc.) is completely frozen. Even
after over an hour it remains frozen.
All other software
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:57 PM, Tim Edwards
tkedwa...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:33 PM, Alex Schuster
wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Tim Edwards writes:
I'm running Opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6 on a Netbook. When I plug the
netbook in to an external
Tim Edwards writes:
Saw something interesting in the konsole window - just before the freeze
ups each time there is output from the Pyweather plasma widget that
shows it trying to retrieve weather data from the net. Currently our
cable internet is out so I'm using 3G (USB tethering from the
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 2:22 PM, Alex Schuster
wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Tim Edwards writes:
Saw something interesting in the konsole window - just before the freeze
ups each time there is output from the Pyweather plasma widget that
shows it trying to retrieve weather data from
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 Tim Edwards wrote:
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 2:22 PM, Alex Schuster
wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Tim Edwards writes:
Saw something interesting in the konsole window - just before the
freeze ups each time there is output from the Pyweather plasma widget
that
On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote:
Tim Edwards writes:
Saw something interesting in the konsole window - just before the freeze
ups each time there is output from the Pyweather plasma widget that
shows it trying to retrieve weather data from the net. Currently our
cable internet
On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote:
Kevin Krammer writes:
On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote:
Tim Edwards writes:
My theory is it looks like the Pyweather widget is hanging trying
to get data sometimes, and this in turn hangs plasma-desktop.
Which, if true, is
Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:24:36 +0100 as excerpted:
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 Tim Edwards wrote:
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 2:22 PM, Alex Schuster
wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Tim Edwards writes:
My theory is it looks like the Pyweather widget is hanging trying
to
get
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 Duncan wrote:
I wonder if it depends on the design of the specific plasmoid. I'm not
sure
whether I've used my netbook for a long enough period without
connection to
guarantee it, but I think it's true that my yawp plasmoid simply shows
the
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 5:33 PM, Kevin Krammer
kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote:
On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote:
Kevin Krammer writes:
Sure, I didn't want to imply that was a problem.
I didn't think you were, just explaining that there should be no blocking
due
to
Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:35:32 +0100 as excerpted:
I take your point, but in truth, any well-written piece of code should
be able to exit gracefully if something fails. If it can't, I'd rather
not run it at all.
You're absolutely correct. But the point is, one of the big
Tim Edwards posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:24:26 +0200 as excerpted:
I have no doubt that there's a fault in the Pyweather plasmoid somewhere
that causes it to hang when the internet connection is flakey. I've
tried another weather plasmoid (CWP) on the same machine and that
doesn't seem to
Kevin Krammer writes:
On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote:
Kevin Krammer writes:
Retrieving data could still be done asynchronously, KDE's networking
can do that even in a single threaded application.
Sure, I didn't want to imply that was a problem.
I didn't think you
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