Why does panel spontaneously delete things?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-10-23, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/22 Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>:
>> Two questions:
>>
>>  1) What's the reasoning behind the decision to permanently
>>    delete a mailwatcher it when it dies?  That makes no sense
>>    to me.  The two options that do make sense: a) restart it,
>>    b) delete it temporarily (until the next time the panel
>>    restarts).
>
> This is a bit hard to fix in the current panel implementation.

I was afraid of that.  It only happens a couple times a week,
so I guess I can wait until 4.8 is out.  If I get really
annoyed I'll just write a shell-script that automatically
restores the panel and plugin configuration files from backup
copies.

> The 4.8 panel will ask you if you want to restart the
> (external) plugin or remove it from the panel configuration
> (after an automatic restart failed).

Cool.

>>  2) Why do the config files get overwritten when the panel
>>    exits even when there have been no changes?  That makes
>>    editing the configuration files a lot more painful since
>>    you have to do it while the panel isn't running.
>
> Because that's the easiest thing to do, and 'normally' nobody will
> change the config file. Anyway, this will also be improved in the
> 4.8 panel, since it'll use xfconf all over the place, so you can
> change most of the plugin settings using xfconf-query while the
> panel is running.
>
> Nick
>
> PS. 4.8 panel will be in trunk after 4.6 is released.

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