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Re: /svn/athena r25553 - in trunk/debathena/debathena/kiosk: . debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sun Jun 3 15:11:23 2012
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 15:11:21 -0400
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To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
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>> + "This machine is currently taking an update and the kiosk browser can't be launched. Please try again later.")
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> Do we want newlines in the string or does it wrap automatically?
It wraps.
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>> + errDlg.run()
>> + errDlg.destroy()
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> Any idea how hard it would be to put a timeout on the lifespan of errDlg?
> I am envisioning someone trying to run the kiosk on a machine taking updates and just leaving the error dialog up until the next person walks by.
> I suppose DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT could help us out ... but we set Parent=None?
Hrm, setting the parent is probably the right answer, we could do that. But really, this is no different than "someone left the machine at the password prompt" and is easy to recover from.
-Jon
