Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel thread names that might offend users.

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 22:36:28 EST


On Tue, 01 Apr 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> More and more GNOME users (especially Ubuntu) get confused by their
> process list showing several process names that seem to indicate
> KDE-related services.
>
> To settle things down a bit on the bugtrackers, this patch renames all
> offending kernel threads into something that goes better with
> GNOME-based systems.

NAK. By doing this, you are denying a golden opportunity to GNOME. The
gProcessDisplayTaskListGTKWidget object MUST have a reason to hide from the
user all those pesky processes with names in brackets. If your patch is
accepted, the oportunity to once again prove to all that GNOME knows
Better[tm] will be lost, as there won't be a reason to commit the patch to
gProcessDisplayTaskListGTKWidget anymore.

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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