Activity resume issues (was Re: twenty issues with Paint activity)

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 26.09.2008 um 06:20 schrieb Mikus Grinbergs:

>>> If from Journal I double-click on a Paint activity icon, I get two  
>>> icons
>>> in the Frame, one of which has a doubled menu ("Paint Activity -  
>>> Resume
>>> - Stop - Resume - Stop") that I can't resume or stop.  When I  
>>> tried to
>>> reproduce I got two icons, the first had the doubled menu, but  
>>> this time
>>> the second icon pulsed forever.
>> The above may be a general system problem.  I have seen the same
>> problem with both Chat and Browse were if you double click on the  
>> icon
>> you end up with menu weirdness and throbbing icons.
>
> I've had the same problem when I accidentally double-clicked on the
> Terminal icon.


Me too. I assumed there were synchronicity issues with activity  
starting/closing/resuming. For example, it has happened to me that  
when I close an activity and immediately resume it, the activity  
cannot create a dbus service. I assumed this was because the previous  
service was not yet completely done yet. But in the light of this new  
discussion it may well have been that I accidentally clicked twice for  
resuming, and since you cannot create the same dbus service twice it  
explains the error.

The symptom is that there are two colored activity icons in the frame  
plus a gray circle. The splash screen is displayed and does not go  
away. I usually press alt-tab then which dismisses the splash screen  
and switches to the actual activity.

- Bert -