It's time to jettison CCSM

Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Fri Jan 27 04:00:34 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 20:49 -0500, Jason J. Herne wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Oli Warner <oli at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>         On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Marc Deslauriers
>         
>          - If CCSM is killing compiz the new compiz-monitoring logic
>         should
>         swoop in and clean up after it.
>         
> 
> How about a "Ubuntu - Last Known Good Configuration" session, or
> detect a Unity crash upon login and offer to fall back to the last
> known good unity configuration or a sane default? 

Yeah, some kind of "Reset desktop settings" safe-mode kind of thing
could be nice. Although, it's not just about detecting crashes. Some
failures cause users to have certain elements of their desktop go
missing, without necessarily being a crash.

Marc.





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