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Bug 359840 - Show errors when viewer can't be started
Show errors when viewer can't be started
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Browser plugin (obsolete)
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: totem-browser-maint
totem-browser-maint
: 394179 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-10-05 10:25 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2014-04-30 11:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
totem-show-plugin-errors.patch (5.45 KB, patch)
2006-11-01 12:45 UTC, Bastien Nocera 		needs-work Details | Review

Description Bastien Nocera 2006-10-05 10:25:18 UTC 
Among other things.

We should have a bare-minimum GTK+ interface showing an image telling us that the viewer can't be started, or another bad error occurred. Clicking on the image would give us a decent error dialogue.

nullplugin port shows us how:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278532
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-11-01 12:45:34 UTC 
Created attachment 75768 [details] [review]
totem-show-plugin-errors.patch

Among other things it's missing:
- better error messages
- do we show a dialogue when we're hidden? (see bug 351269)
- do we show a dialogue with the error, or a tooltip?
- if we go for the tooltip, should we have a "open in other app" and "copy location" popup?
- working DnD to other apps?
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2007-01-11 17:06:12 UTC 
*** Bug 394179 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2007-01-11 17:06:38 UTC 
attachment 79728 [details] from bug 394179 is an example.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2014-04-30 11:22:47 UTC 
The browser plugin has been removed from Totem. See this post for more details:
http://www.hadess.net/2014/04/good-bye-totem-browser-plugin.html