Manage unresponsive applications

[David Barth]

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#Unresponsive applications

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Reflecting the true status

[David Barth (dbarth)]

This is a request for a Feature Freeze Exception, per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#General Instructions

Proposed changes: The proposed change disables the application menu while the application is frozen, and re-enables them if the application recovers.
Rationale for the exception: The new appmenu feature is the default menu interface on Netbooks (UNE). Without this feature, it doesn't prevent users from activating application menu items when the application itself is stuck or unresponsive after a first attempt at using its menu. The current version (without the change) only removes the whole menubar once an application is terminated either normally or abnormally.
Additional information: the patch is available at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-appmenu/trunk/revision/54

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Further elements to document the exception request will follow, according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze Exceptions and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze for new upstream versions

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Adding ayatana-ubuntu to track work required for the exception process.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Is this change still wanted for Maverick?

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Yes, and it is in. Forgot to put the bug number in the changelog. Sorry Scott.