Re: [NSWorkspace launchedApplications] issue

[Riccardo]

Hi,

On 2007-08-03 08:18:10 +0200 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 2. check that the apps are still responding if it's more than 30  
> seconds 
> since the last time launchedApplications was called.
>
> I'm not sure that (2) is a good idea though ... the check has the  
> potential 
> to be very slow and can potentially remove an app from the  list when 
> it's 
> only temporarily not responding, rather than  permanently hung.  
> Thoughts?


What means responding? Some apps might be "busy" for quite some time. 
FTP release (0.1, not current CVS) is not threaded, thus when it 
downloads a file usually gnustep doesn't update the window at all (and 
also can cause focus problems... this is very nasty). Would a download 
of over 30seconds make it mark as crashed? Current FTP uses NSTask so 
it shouldn't happen, if at all. But it is just an example...

Riccardo