Re: opening problems with GWorkspace

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> I finally managed to reproduce this bug and fixed it in svn. The issue 
> occurred (only) on machines which are slow enough for GWorkspace 
> needing more than 5 seconds to finish launching. The cause of the bug 
> is a subtle error in r29864, where NSRunAlertPanel returns 
> NSAlertFirstButtonReturn instead of NSAlertDefaultReturn when it is 
> run from a non-gui application. This was causing a SIGTERM signal 
> being sent to GWorkspace and a second instance of GWorkspace being 
> started.
>
> Note that (thanks to some inexplicable wisdom of Apple) 
> NSAlertFirstButtonReturn is not equal to NSAlertDefaultReturn and that 
> the NSAlertXXXButtonReturn constants are meant to be used only with 
> the NSAlert methods, but not with the old OpenStep dialog functions 
> (and also not with NSAlert's alertWithMessageText:... class method).

This indeed fixes the problem for me, I did a couple of tests. Very well!

Riccardo