[594] in Athena User Interface
panel mods happen when they should not.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Jan 8 14:20:29 2001
Message-ID: <IuKV=u0Ga05J0oMl80@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:20:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: aui@MIT.EDU, bug-aui@MIT.EDU
Repeat by:
Log into 2 systems.
Modify your panel config on System A
Log out of system A
Log out of system B
Even though you made no modifications while logged onto system B,
the changes you made while on System A are blown away because,
on logout, the state of your panel is rewritten to your config files.
It seems to me that, in order to obey the principle of least surprise,
the list of applets configured for your panel should only change when
you modify them explicitly. Those things should NOT be updated blindly
every time you log out.
This bug is particularly annoying when, after logging onto one system
type that mutilates your panel config while the session manager crashes,
you have to be VERY careful to restore your panel config AFTER logging
out of the crashing session.
-wdc
