Re: not so instant apply

[Sami Wagiaalla <swagiaal at redhat dot com>]

I opened http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4374
Will fix this soon.


Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Noticed this yesterday.
>
> The setup-assistant appears to doing an instant apply - attaching to 
> and hanging the processes - before the user has indicated that they 
> are finished.  Several problems I can identify here:
>
> - when re-opening a session, processes are being attached _before_ the 
> user has confirmed the choice
> As I pointed out in another thread, the operation and consequence here 
> is non-trivial, so the user needs to be given the chance to confirm 
> the selected processes before going further.  The problem/consequence 
> is easily seen by: create a "bash session"; quit frysk; from bash 
> start frysk in the _forground_; open the "bash session" bringing up 
> the process-picker; try backgrounding frysk
>
> - instant apply works when there is instant visual feedback
> Since the monitor/debugger is not yet displayed (and no please don't 
> start displaying it), there is no visual feedback, and no reason for 
> the apply.
>
> comments,
> Andrew