[sugar] Killing hung activities

2008-07-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Today I was testing Paing in Joyride and managed to hung it in a way that hogs the CPU. There seems to be no way to kill such an activity from Sugar. Stop just tries to close the X window, which is ineffective in such cases. We'd need to fire a timer to check if the activity is still there after

Re: [sugar] Killing hung activities

2008-07-29 Thread Eben Eliason
Indeed, the need for this has been expressed in a long forgotten ticket. I do think it's something we should support in some fashion, and something worth a look for 9.1. More comments on the ticket: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1166#comment:8 (The in the ring activities mentioned are now in the