#4236 NORM Never A: Need way to cancel activity start

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#4236: Need way to cancel activity start
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  Reporter:  bert    |       Owner:  marco         
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:                
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 Replying to [comment:2 marco]:
 > Is allowing users to kill an activity which is starting a good idea? We
 don't know what the activity is doing, if it's writing on disk or what.
 Activities takes a *lot* by default to start up so user could do that
 pretty often.

 It's a very good idea. The user may have made a mistake.

 Writing to disk is no excuse. The user could hit the power button;
 activities must not corrupt themselves. Cutting power is even more harsh,
 since it trips up activities which write to critical data without
 performing atomic filesystem transactions. Such activities need fixing.

 > (After a certain timeout we should certainly have a stop and at some
 point just kill the icon automatically)

 No. Maybe the user has installed something really slow.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4236#comment:4>
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