[maemo-developers] Beware 'Personal launcher'

[From: Niels Breet]

On Fri, November 21, 2008 09:30, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
>
> ext Niels Breet wrote:
>>> For some strange reason its memory usage evened out after it's eaten
>>> about all there is.  It's possible that there was some triggering
>>> condition for this, I don't know.
>>>
>> I have installed and tested the application on my tablet and I really
>> can't trigger the behavior.
>>
>> What did you do to trigger this condition? Did you overlap applets? Did
>>  you install other applets? Can you reproduce it on a fresh firmware?
>
> Asked for more details:
> 1. Only personal launcher is enabled and device is booted after
> enabling it 2. "Use resizable layout" enabled
> 3. Launcher has enough icons (in one column, icon size = 64)
> that it it's higher than screen
>
> When launcher is disabled, Desktop crashes.  The leakage and
> crash are 100% reproducible.
>

The author was able to reproduce your leak with these instructions. He
uploaded a new version to Extras to solve the problem.

Can you confirm that it is fixed now?

>
> - Eero
>

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster