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gnome-panel package

GNOME Panel Doesn't Notify of Program Errors on Startup

Bug #26876 reported by Lukas Sabota
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Panel
Confirmed
High
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

If a program fails to start to to an error (A missing library perhaps), GNOME
will not let the user know that the program has failed to start. The "loading"
seqeunce will just continue to run. A smarter approach to this would be to
probe for stderr and notify the user of the problem. Maybe something like this:

Error
The program failed to start properly.
Details >
  Library libfoobar.2.0.so.1 could not be found.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323715: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323715

See original description
Revision history for this message
Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) wrote :

Also: Gnome properly notifies the user if a binary cannot be found. Something
similar should happen for other errors.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323715

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Rejected → Confirmed
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Unknown → High
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