Re: [Licq-main] Suggestion: Only one error box at a time, please :)

[Wolf J.F. <key...@bi...>]

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On Monday 22 April 2002 15:44, Ryan Underwood wrote:

> > This morning I got up to find KDE (2.2.1) attempting to display a
> > never-ending stream of Licq "Error" boxes, as Licq was apparently
> > making many of these boxes every second.
>
> This happened to me too sometime between midnight and 6AM CST last
> night.
...
> It was insane.  It was like one huge EMP blast straight from the ICQ
> server that nuked everything connected to their network. :)
>
> I'm running the Debian package of licq-cvs from February.  Though, I
> don't think licq has anything to do with this particular problem, it
> would be nice if it didn't spam little windows all over the place
> when something bogus happens.

	Nope, if whatever Mirabilis did managed to screw up four or five other 
software products, then it's definitely not some flaw in Licq.  :)
	However, it's also an opportunity to excel -- by making Licq more 
robust in handling "EMP" type events!  I think it should display some 
kind of "critical error" box and drop offline, not trying again until 
the user responds.  Of course, that assumes it's possible for a normal 
ICQ client to tell bad data from good, and I know that in some cases 
this is not possible.  Still, I'd prefer to throw an exception and then 
sit quietly in the corner, rather than making millions of error boxes.  
(GIMP used to do this sort of thing, as I learned when I filled up /tmp 
during a long editing session, and was then rewarded with a screen full 
of error boxes... this behavior has since changed!)

	I'll keep my massive log file for another week in case some developer 
wants to slog through it and figure out why things blew up -- due to 
Licq resetting the debug info, it was logging *everything* as far as I 
can tell.  :/

	(BTW, Ryan, the list got 3 copies of that message...)

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