On 5/23/10, Visti Andresen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:55:46 +0200 (CEST)
> David Kozub <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 23 May 2010, Sybren A. Stüvel wrote:
>>
>> > One nag about the message: it doesn't tell you how to solve the
>> > issue. So a regular user may just as well not see anything, as this
>> > will tell them very little. I believe there is a DBUS call that can
>> > re-enable the GSM, maybe offer to call that? Or suggest a reboot?
>>
>> You're right. But my patch is not about this specific feature, it's
>> about adding a message box (inwin in fact) for error replies from
>> (mostly) the FSO and it's used in more places throughout the
>> liphone-ui-shr. It's supposed to be an improvement over "nothing
>> happens" (as perceived by the user) to "at least an error is
>> displayed".
>>
>> Remedying the situation or offering relevant tips would have to be
>> per-case and while it would be cool, it sounds quite complex.
>
> And if the system knows the fix, then why not just fix the problem
> instead?
> Ok reboots may be somewhat extreme...
>
> The watchdog system in my Nokia 770 did restart the tablet from time
> to time, until they got rid of some bugs and/or I added some swap
> space(low mem also tripped it).
> I believe the rationale were "We would rather have an extra reboot than
> a stuck end-user"
>
> But any way, messages that informs me that things has broken down are
> preferred to no information at all.
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David
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But I would rather have stucked me than extra reboot :P

Let's make everything stable first, and such messages as from screen
are perfect for that (I've implemented the same thing in opimd-utils
ages ago and suggested this way of error handling i
n SHR, so i'm happy someone did implement it :) We don't need more
complex error handling yet, and we definitely don't want automatic
error solving at this stage.
-- 
Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
dos
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