On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:08:41AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > http://www.osnews.com/story/21999/Editorial_X_Could_Learn_a_Lot_from_Vista_Windows_7 > > He's upset > a) that resizing a vlc window crashed X > b) that X crashing crashes the apps rather than transparently restarting > > Good points both... Could have a proxy X server > that transparantly restarted X and reconnected to it somehow > to insulate apps from the crash? Or would it be better > to build the crash resilience into the protocol, like NFS did?
Yeah maybe, however not something we can reasonably do at the distro level. Perhaps a good topic to take upstream. However we *are* well situated now for handling crashes. Apport automatically collects detailed crash reports, and we've got decent docs on doing it manually if that fails. Admittedly I've not been looking at the xserver crash reports a lot recently (too busy with driver bugs) but in Jaunty I found I could make fast progress on them. Now, I'm not going to argue that crashing is an appropriate response for X to error states, however I would suggest that someone with the coding chops and time to develop the above workaround system could likely fix most all the known crashers. (Seriously!) Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
